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Turkey detains 25 people, including civil servants, over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities have detained 25 people, including current and former civil servants, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Turkish prosecutors order detention of 9 despite ECtHR ruling on messaging app use

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of nine people for using an encrypted messaging app despite rulings by the European Court of Human Rights...

Turkish bar associations, press groups condemn arrest of journalists as ‘alarming’

Bar associations and press freedom groups in Turkey have condemned the arrest of journalists Alican Uludağ and İsmail Arı, warning that their jailing poses...

ISIL-linked networks form closed communities, online structures in Turkey: report

Networks linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other Salafi groups have developed localized community structures in Turkey, supported...

İstanbul court jails 9 for spreading PKK propaganda in probe of Kurdish Nevruz celebrations

A court in İstanbul jailed nine people pending trial on Wednesday on charges of disseminating propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during...

3 land registry officials arrested in probe over access to justice minister’s property records

Two land registry directors in Çorum and Afyonkarahisar and a land registry official in the southern province of Antalya have been arrested as part...

Suspected gunman in murder of Turkish whistleblower detained in France

French police have detained a suspect that Dutch authorities say was the gunman in the killing of Turkish whistleblower Cemil Önal, a former finance...

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment rose to 29.7 percent in 2025: TurkStat

Turkey’s broadly defined unemployment rate rose to 29.7 percent in 2025, up 3 percentage points from a year earlier, according to official figures released...

Former football club presidents among 14 detained in expanding İstanbul drug probe

Former Beşiktaş chairman Fikret Orman and former Galatasaray chairman Burak Elmas are among 14 people detained in an expanding drug investigation in İstanbul, prosecutors...

Trial begins in deadly factory fire case in Turkey as families demand full accountability

Families of workers killed in a factory fire in northwestern Turkey last year called for the prosecution of all those responsible, including public officials,...

Aide of far-right leader calls on justice minister to answer allegations of unexplained wealth

An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s far-right ally, Devlet Bahçeli, has publicly called on Justice Minister Akın Gürlek to hold a detailed...

One in 7 Turkish children faces peer bullying, parliamentary report says

One in seven children ages 6 to 17 in Turkey is subjected to peer bullying, the Karar daily reported on Tuesday, citing a parliamentary...

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