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Turkey building pandemic hospital over closed airport’s pricey runways

A new hospital is being constructed for COVID-19 patients over runways at the now-closed İstanbul Atatürk Airport that had cost $2 million to build, with the...

40 percent of journalists in Turkey are not university graduates: TurkStat

Only 60 percent of the journalists in Turkey have a university degree, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), Euronews’ Turkish edition reported. As May...

Family of young Syrian shot to death by police to be granted Turkish citizenship

Twenty-one family members of a young Syrian man who was shot to death by a police officer in the southern Turkish province of Adana last week...

Turkey records lowest COVID-19 daily death toll in a month, minister says

Sixty-one more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced on Sunday, the lowest number in a...

2 Turkish soldiers killed in clash with PKK in SE Turkey

Two Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern Turkish province of Bitlis, according to a statement...

Number of daily new COVID-19 cases falls below 2,000, Turkish health minister says

The number of people who become infected with the novel coronavirus per day has for the first time since March 30 fallen below 2,000, Turkish Health...

İstanbul police detain union leaders attempting May Day march: report

Police in İstanbul detained at least 15 people, including trade union leaders who tried to stage a May Day march in defiance of coronavirus lockdown rules...

Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll reaches 3,258, minister says

The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 84 in the last 24 hours to 3,258, with 2,188...

Two 94-year-old women recover from COVID-19 in Turkey: report

Two 94-year-old Turkish women successfully recovered after contracting the deadly coronavirus, which has claimed thousands of lives worldwide, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to doctors,...

Turkey now has more than 120,000 coronavirus cases, death toll at 3,174

The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Turkey has risen by 93 in the last 24 hours to 3,174, with 2,615...

HRW calls on Turkish officials to investigate enforced disappearance, torture claims

Turkish authorities should urgently carry out an effective investigation into credible testimony from a man in pretrial detention that state agents forcibly disappeared him...

Turkish gov’t continued crackdown on dissidents in 2019: Amnesty annual report

Government's crackdown on dissidents in Turkey continued in 2019 despite the end of a two-year-long state of emergency in July 2018, Amnesty International (AI)...

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