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Fenerbahçe to elect new president as Yıldırım and Safi promise title, major spending

Turkish football club Fenerbahçe will elect a president on Sunday in its third leadership vote in three years, with former chairman Aziz Yıldırım facing...

Honorary chair of Turkey’s largest conglomerate investigated over joke targeting Kurdish women

Turkish prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the honorary chairman of the country’s largest business group after video showed him telling a joke...

1 dead, 4 hospitalized after attack sinks Turkish fishing boat near Crimea

Four fishermen wounded in an attack that sank a Turkish fishing boat near Russian-occupied Crimea were taken to a hospital in northern Turkey on...

Turkey court releases journalist jailed on false information charge

A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of investigative journalist İsmail Arı after 75 days in pretrial detention on a charge of spreading...

‘No hope’: Indian crew stranded off İstanbul for months

Four Indian sailors have been stranded for months on an abandoned container ship off İstanbul, unable to leave because maritime rules require the vessel...

Mayor quits main opposition party amid reports of his talks to join the ruling party

Kilis Mayor Hakan Bilecen, elected from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has resigned from the party, saying promises made to him were...

Court releases all defendants jailed over alleged sexual abuse of interns in Turkish Parliament

A court in Ankara on Thursday ordered the release of four jailed defendants standing trial over allegations that high school interns were sexually abused...

Turkish police detain 86 in match-fixing, illegal betting operation

Turkish police have detained 86 suspects in simultaneous operations across 24 provinces as part of an İstanbul-based investigation into alleged match-fixing, illegal betting and...

Turkish court gives three men life sentences over 2013 Reyhanlı bombings

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced three men to 53 aggravated life and 3,921 years in prison each on various charges over the 2013...

Turkey opens antitrust investigation into Meta over WhatsApp AI access

Turkey’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Meta Platforms over whether the company used WhatsApp to give its own artificial intelligence service an...

Turkey’s prison population exceeds capacity by over 116,000

Turkey’s prison population reached 421,583 as of June 1, more than 116,000 above the country’s official prison capacity, according to data from the Ministry...

Lawmaker asks why Turkish Parliament withheld report on 2016 coup attempt

A lawmaker from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party has asked Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş to explain why a parliamentary report on a failed coup in...

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