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Yet another family ruined as mother dies while purge-victim father is in jail

Two-year-old Elif Zehra Çalışkan is now without parents as her mother died after falling from a balcony and her father, an academic, has been in jail...

Workers aged 18 to 20 exempted from curfew imposed in Turkey: report

Workers between the age of 18 and 20 in Turkey will be exempt from a curfew on young people imposed last week to help slow the...

Journalists call for release of jailed colleagues in wake of COVID-19 outbreak

A group of journalists in Turkey who came together under the name of “Haberin Var Mı İnsiyatifi,” (Do you know about the initiative?) have called on...

Turkey’s COVID-19 cases rise to 27,069, death toll hits 574

Turkey had 27,069 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Sunday, with an increase of 3,135 in the last 24 hours, while the death toll grew by...

COVID-19 release bill passed by Turkish parliament committee excludes political prisoners

A committee in the Turkish Parliament on Saturday approved a bill that will allow the release of up to 100,000 inmates from Turkey’s overcrowded prisons due...

Construction of new palace for Erdoğan continues despite COVID-19 outbreak

The construction of a new presidential complex for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ahlat near Lake Van in eastern Turkey is still underway despite the outbreak...

Turkey’s COVID-19 death toll rises to 501, confirmed cases number 23,934

Turkey had 23,934 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Saturday, with an increase of 3,013 in the last 24 hours while the death toll grew by...

Turkey imposes partial curfew on youths, shuts borders of 31 provinces: report

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Turkey was imposing a partial curfew on people under the age of 20 effective from midnight on Friday...

Turkey arrests popular Twitter users for spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’

Turkish authorities on Friday arrested two of the three well-known anonymous Twitter users who were detained on Wednesday and Thursday. Mesut Aykin, who reportedly runs the popular government-critical...

Confirmed coronavirus cases in Turkey increase to 20,921, death toll at 425: minister

Turkey had 20,921 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Friday, with an increase of 2,786 in the last 24 hours, the health minister said, while the...

Veteran journalist arrested for tweet mocking Erdoğan’s donation campaign

A veteran Turkish journalist was arrested on Friday for provoking public hatred and enmity with a tweet mocking the government’s national pandemic relief campaign. Turkish President Recep...

Turkey mulls enforcing tighter measures in İstanbul amid coronavirus: report

Turkey is moving toward tighter measures to slow the spread of the country’s coronavirus outbreak and could ban people under 18 and over 60 from leaving...

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