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Pro-Kurdish party briefs ruling, opposition parties on meeting with jailed PKK leader

Delegates from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) met with representatives from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and...

Erdoğan blocked prosecution of ministers implicated in 2013 graft probe: ex-AKP lawmaker

An opposition lawmaker and former MP from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevented the prosecution...

SOCAR to invest $7 billion in Turkish energy sector amid criticism of oil trade with Israel

Azerbaijan’s state-run SOCAR oil and gas company is planning to establish new petrochemical facilities worth $7 billion in Turkey amid rising criticism of the...

Ex-police chief involved in graft probe targeting Erdoğan’s inner circle dies of cancer in exile

Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former Turkish deputy police commissioner who played a key role in exposing corruption within the inner circle of then-prime minister and...

Lawyers taking murder case of Kurdish rights lawyer to top court after appeals court ruling

Lawyers representing the family of slain Kurdish human rights lawyer Tahir Elçi are taking his case to Turkey’s Constitutional Court after a regional appeals...

Turkey’s Education Ministry authorizes Grey Wolves to offer courses at education centers

Turkey’s Ministry of Education has signed a protocol with the Grey Wolves, the youth wing of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), granting the...

Turkey vows to eliminate Syrian Kurdish fighters, warns West against supporting them

Turkey said Monday that it was "only a matter of time" before Syrian Kurdish fighters -- seen by the West as essential in the...

Fighting between pro-Turkish, Kurdish forces kills 101 in Syria: rights group

More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a...

Mothers of enforced disappearance victims hold 1,032nd Saturday vigil in İstanbul

The Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking to learn the fate of loved ones who disappeared in police custody in Turkey,...

Widespread human rights violations reported in Turkish prisons in 2024

Turkish prison authorities committed multiple human rights violations against inmates in 2024, including torture, strip-searches and the denial of medical care, the Stockholm Center...

Over 2.7 million people in İstanbul live in poverty: study

More than 2.7 million people out of 15 million residents of İstanbul are living in poverty, according to a study by the İstanbul Planning...

Critics say official inflation data mean starvation pensions for retirees

Turkey’s official inflation figures for December, showing a 44.3 percent annual increase, have drawn sharp criticism from opposition leaders, labor unions and economists, who...

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