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Turkey floods INTERPOL with passport alerts, Red Notice requests for political manhunts: report

Turkey has used INTERPOL mechanisms on a massive scale to pursue journalists living in exile and political opponents through filings of Red Notice requests and...

Turkey arrests 6 suspects in alleged Iran-linked espionage operation

A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of six people, including an Iranian national, who were detained in an operation targeting an alleged...

Turkish publisher investigated for ‘terrorism funding’ over royalty payments to jailed authors

Prosecutors have opened a "terrorism funding" investigation into a Turkish publishing house over royalty payments to two contributors writing and editing from behind bars,...

Turkish journalist briefly detained over social media posts allegedly insulting Erdoğan

Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş was briefly detained on accusations of “insulting the president” and “inciting crime,” the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing the...

Turkey to sell Boydak family’s textile giant Boyteks seized after 2016 coup attempt

Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put Boyteks Tekstil, one of the country’s largest textile manufacturers, previously owned by the Boydak family,...

Poverty, gangs push more children into crime in Turkey

Children in Turkey are being drawn into crime as poverty deepens and gangs recruit minors, according to an analysis published by BBC’s Turkish service...

PKK spokesman says Syria clashes are setback for peace with Turkey

A spokesman for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said Tuesday that recent clashes between Syria’s military and Kurdish forces are a setback for...

Erdoğan’s AKP adds 4 more mayors as defections from opposition continue

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday welcomed four opposition mayors into the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), personally pinning their party badges on...

Turkey bans protests in southeastern province bordering Syria

Officials in Mardin, a southeastern Turkish province that borders Syria, on Monday announced a six-day ban on gatherings following an outpouring of anger over...

Actor, producer removed from popular Turkish series as drug probe targets celebrities

A Turkish actor and a prominent television producer have been removed from popular TV series after authorities said their drug tests were positive, the...

EU rapporteur slams ruling in İmamoğlu diploma case as court rejects appeal

Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, has sharply criticized a Turkish court’s decision to reject jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s appeal...

Jailed PKK leader Öcalan gifts hand-woven rug to Turkey’s far-right leader in unusual gesture

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has said he received a handwoven rug commissioned by Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader...

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