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Erdoğan announces 4-day nationwide curfew during Eid al-Fitr

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that a four-day lockdown starting on May 23 would be imposed nationwide as part of efforts to prevent...

Turkish opposition leader proposes 16-point plan for ‘overcoming the crisis’

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has laid out a 16-point plan that he says was designed to resolve the current crisis...

Turkey’s RTÜK fines broadcasters critical of gov’t $1.6 million in year and a half

Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) over the last year and a half has imposed TL 11 million ($ 1.6 million) in fines on TV...

Turkish admiral behind Libya accord, post-coup purge in navy resigns after reassignment

A rear admiral, known as the architect of Turkey’s recent east Mediterranean diplomacy and a fierce executioner of the post-2016-coup purge in the Turkish navy, resigned...

39 inmates with COVID-19 held together in one ward at Silivri Prison: report

Thirty-nine prisoners with COVID-19 are being held in the same ward at Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison, which houses some 23,000 inmates, according to the Gazete Duvar...

Local opposition youth branch official arrested after Erdoğan remarks

A youth branch official from Turkey’s main opposition party was arrested on Saturday by an Adana court after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeted him, according to...

Prosecutor rules no need for probe into death of teacher tortured in custody

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has once again ruled that there is no need to investigate the death of teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was allegedly...

Anti-gov’t Twitter user, journalist detained after being targeted by pro-gov’t media

Taylan Kulaçoğlu, a popular, anti-government Twitter user, and journalist Hakan Gülseven were detained after they were targeted by pro-government media circles, Turkish media reports said on...

Turkey’s COVID-19 cases near 150,000, 44 more fatalities in last 24 hours

Forty-four more people have died of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Sunday, while the total number of cases...

Professor fired from university after promoting teenage pregnancy

İstanbul Aydın University has fired an academic due to controversial remarks made during a TV program in which he seemingly advocated teenage pregnancy, causing public outrage...

41 more people die of COVID-19 in Turkey, number of cases reaches 148,067

Forty-one more people have died of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Saturday, while the total number of cases...

Turkey’s COVID-19 cases increase slightly more than expected

The number of coronavirus cases in Turkey increased by 1,708 on Friday, slightly more than in previous days, as the death toll reached 4,055, according to...

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