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Ex-soldier walks free as sentence suspended in rape case

A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to a former noncommissioned officer standing trial for raping Ä°pek Er, an 18-year-old Kurdish woman...

Ex-prosecutor, wife fleeing Turkey’s crackdown perish in Aegean

A former public prosecutor and his wife, a former court clerk, died after a speedboat carrying them overturned in the Aegean Sea as they...

Turkey’s central bank steps in again to contain lira’s decline

The Turkish Central Bank (TCMB) has meddled with the foreign exchange markets by injecting dollars for the second time this week to stop the...

Opposition leader denied entry to Turkey‘s statistics institute

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was denied entry to the headquarters of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), which...

Annual Turkish inflation surges to 21.31 percent in November: official data

Turkey's annual inflation rate jumped over 20 percent in November, official data showed Friday, after a currency crisis last month when the Turkish lira...

Turkey will increase its presence at INTERPOL, newly elected Executive Committee member says

Turkey will grow its presence at INTERPOL by increasing its number of liaison officers in the General Secretariat and nominating more candidates for senior...

Parliamentary committee OKs Qatari planes, personnel deployment to Turkey for training

The Turkish parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has approved an agreement allowing Qatar to temporarily deploy aircraft and military personnel to Turkey for training, the...

Opposition leader asks supermarkets not to raise prices of essential foods in winter

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has urged the management of supermarkets not to increase basic food prices in winter...

HDP co-chair meets with ambassadors of EU countries

Pervin Buldan, co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), met with the ambassadors of European Union member countries at a lunch hosted in...

21 teachers dismissed from their jobs in SE Turkey over ‘terrorist ties’

Twenty-one teachers who were detained in November 2020 as part of a terrorism investigation have been fired from their jobs based on a government...

10 military cadets free after more than 5 years in prison on coup charges

Ten former military cadets who had been incarcerated in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison for more than five years on coup charges have been released...

11-year-old autistic boy succumbs to heart disease without saying goodbye to his jailed father

Ömer Faruk Turan, 11, died of heart failure on Tuesday without being able to say goodbye to his father, who has been in prison...

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