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Turkey hands down hundreds of life sentences in 2016 coup attempt trial

A Turkish court on Thursday handed down life sentences to a majority of 475 defendants, including army commanders and pilots, accused of directing a...

Turkish health minister under fire after announcing number of daily coronavirus cases for the first time

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has attracted widespread criticism for previously hiding the true scale of the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey after he announced...

Minister: 292,000 detained, 96,000 arrested over Gülen links so far

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 292,000 people have been detained while 96,000 others have been jailed due to...

Jailed journalist says in letter inmates forced to live in cells invaded by rats

A Turkish journalist who has been in jail since March 2018 on terrorism charges has written in a letter from prison about the “inhumanly”...

Daily coronavirus deaths in Turkey have surpassed 1,000, opposition deputy says

More than 1,000 people succumb to COVID-19 in Turkey every day, Mustafa Adıgüzel, a deputy from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and also...

Former Turkish military officer reveals details of Turkey’s illegal arms shipments to Syria

Nuri Gökhan Bozkır, a former major who served in an elite force attached to the Special Forces Command (ÖKK) in the Turkish military before...

ECtHR judgment could spell the end of anonymous witnesses in Turkey

Cevheri Güven Tens of thousands of people are imprisoned in Turkey on the basis of accounts given to authorities by anonymous witnesses, which often occurs...

Leaders of opposition alliance call for early elections, saying Turkey is not well governed

Chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener on have called for early elections, accusing...

Turkey asks global firms to financially support its small business owners amid pandemic

Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said they have contacted global firms to find out what they can do to financially support Turkey’s small business...

Erdoğan calls Demirtaş a ‘terrorist,’ denies existence of a Kurdish problem in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has referred to jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016 on politically motivated...

İstanbul’s coronavirus map shows entire city in red except forests, sea

An online risk assessment map showing the concentration of coronavirus cases in İstanbul reveals the severity of the pandemic in Turkey’s most populous city...

Most domestic violence suspects go unprosecuted in Turkey, report reveals

Turkish prosecutors have filed criminal cases against only 4,910 out of a total of 25,841 domestic violence suspects in Turkey in the last eight...

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