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Turkey considers bill mandating social media identity checks, expanding content-removal powers

A Turkish government bill expected to be introduced in parliament in the coming days would require identity verification for social media users, impose new...

Turkey sends drilling vessel to Somalia after F-16 deployment, reported tank transfer

Turkey sent a deep-sea drilling ship to Somalia on Sunday for its first offshore exploration mission outside Turkey’s maritime zone, after the deployment of...

3 defendants rearrested in Turkish Parliament intern abuse case

A Turkish court has ordered the rearrest of four defendants in a case concerning the alleged sexual abuse of high school student interns working...

Majority of people in Turkey oppose bridge, highway privatization, survey finds

More than half of people in Turkey oppose the privatization of public assets such as bridges and highways and believe previous privatizations benefited certain...

5 ISIL militants who killed 3 police officers in Turkey had been acquitted months earlier

Five of the six Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who shot three police officers dead in a pre-dawn raid in...

Co-founder of Erdoğan’s AKP says party’s ‘virtue’ promise failed as Turks abandon Islam, prayers

Bülent Arınç, a founder of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and a former speaker of the Turkish Parliament, has said...

Turks fear earthquakes but lack basic preparedness: survey

Nearly 60 percent of Turkey's population is anxious about earthquakes, yet three out of every four households do not have an emergency kit ready,...

Pro-Kurdish party leader says jailed PKK founder’s freedom inseparable from peace efforts

A leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party said on Friday that Turkey cannot pursue peace with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) while keeping...

Irish rock group postpones İstanbul show after authorities cancel heavy metal concerts

Irish instrumental rock group God Is An Astronaut said its İstanbul concert scheduled for Friday night was postponed for reasons “beyond our control,” days...

3 detained as Boğaziçi University restricts access to campus due to Erdoğan visit

Police detained at least three people at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University on Friday as the school administration restricted access to the campus and moved classes...

93 former, current tax inspectors detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police detained 93 former and currently employed tax inspectors in raids across 11 provinces on Friday, part of an İstanbul-based investigation over links...

Second Uzbek woman killed, dismembered, dumped in İstanbul trash bins

Turkish investigators believe two Uzbek men arrested over the murder of an Uzbek woman whose headless body was found in a trash bin in...

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