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Turkey made highest number of removal requests to Twitter in 2019, report shows

A report drafted by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) has shown that Turkey made the highest number of applications to the Twitter social...

Poll shows support for ErdoÄŸan’s party slipping to 30 percent

A public survey conducted by the Ankara-based Metropoll polling company has shown that the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been in power...

New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts

Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...

Turkey now has 203,456 coronavirus cases, 5,186 deaths

Turkey registered 1,172 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 203,456, according to a chart posted on Twitter by...

Blast at Turkish fireworks factory kills 4, injures 97: report

An explosion at a fireworks factory in northwestern Turkey on Friday killed four people and injured 97 others, officials said. At least three people were...

Court convicts former Amnesty Turkey leaders on terror charges: report

Amnesty International Turkey said two of its former leaders were convicted on terrorism charges by an Ä°stanbul court on Friday in a case reflecting...

Turkey records 1,186 new coronavirus cases, death toll at 5,167

Turkey reported 1,186 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of cases to 202,284, according to a chart posted on Twitter by...

TV channels critical of Turkish gov’t receive 5-day ban, near permanent suspension

Two television channels in Turkey have been hit with five-day bans and the threat of permanent suspension, in a move slammed by press freedom...

Families commemorate 1993 Sivas massacre victims on anniversary

Thirty-three Turkish intellectuals who perished in a fire in 1993 inside the Madımak Hotel were commemorated in Sivas on Thursday, the 27th anniversary of...

Babacan vows to dissolve Turkey’s Wealth Fund, calls it an unregulated ‘black hole’

Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) leader Ali Babacan has promised to abolish Turkey’s Wealth Fund in the event his party comes to power, the...

AKP continues to lose voters, DEVA on the rise, new poll suggests

A new survey has indicated that Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been losing voters, while the newly founded Democracy and Progress...

Turkey to investigate TikTok over data security concerns

Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has launched an investigation into social media platform TikTok over concerns about a possible data security gap, state-run...

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