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Turkish nurse detained over online hair-braiding protest linked to Kurdish women in Syria

Turkish police have detained a nurse in the northwestern province of Kocaeli after she took part in an online hair-braiding protest campaign in solidarity...

Attack attempt outside Diyarbakır police headquarters leaves no casualties; 13 detained

An attempted attack involving an improvised explosive device (IED) outside police headquarters in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır prompted a security operation that led...

Anger after woman’s headless body found in İstanbul trash bin

Police in İstanbul detained three suspects after the decapitated body of a woman, whose legs had also been cut off, was found overnight in...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party calls for end to siege of Kobane as police break up İstanbul protest

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) on Saturday urged an immediate end to what it called a military and humanitarian siege...

Man sentenced to 7.5 years in prison over alleged financial aid to Gülen-linked prisoners’ families

A Turkish court has sentenced a man to seven-and-a-half years in prison on accusations that he helped transfer money to families of people jailed...

Minutes of MPs’ November meeting with Öcalan link Ankara’s peace efforts to Syria battlefield

Turkey’s parliament has released the full minutes of a rare meeting between lawmakers and jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, offering a...

Turkish court sentences opposition mayor to prison on terrorism charges

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced Ahmet Özer, the mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), to more...

4 arrested in Turkey over alleged Gülen links

A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of five people in Tekirdağ province, including four accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

[UPDATE] Journalist put under house arrest over reporting on opposition figures

A Turkish court on Friday ordered journalist Furkan Karabay to be put under house arrest pending trial as part of an investigation linked to...

Man previously acquitted in drug case among arrestees after Spain seizure

A Turkish national previously acquitted in a major domestic drug trafficking case has been arrested again as part of an investigation linked to Spain’s...

Kurdish women’s braids become protest symbol after viral Raqqa clip

A short video circulating online from the Syrian city of Raqqa has sparked a wave of protest posts as women in Turkey and across...

Antidepressant use hits record high in Turkey as economic strain deepens

Antidepressant use in Turkey reached a record level in 2025, with opposition politicians and researchers pointing to worsening economic conditions, rising debt and growing...

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