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US senator backs reports Maduro was offered exile in Turkey before raid

A US senator has said President Nicolás Maduro was offered exile in Turkey before his capture, supporting media reports that Washington gave the Venezuelan...

18-year-old Turkish man among victims of deadly Swiss ski resort bar fire

An 18-year-old Swiss citizen of Turkish origin was among the 40 people killed in a devastating fire at a crowded bar in the Swiss...

Actor among 23 detained in expanding İstanbul drug probe

Turkish police on Monday detained 23 people, including an actor, in the latest wave of an ongoing drug investigation centered in İstanbul, prosecutors said. The...

Privatization under AKP surges to 63 times pre-2002 levels

Privatization revenue under Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has risen by a factor of 63 compared to the period before the party...

Erdoğan calls for Turkey’s return to F-35 program, citing NATO security: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed calls for Turkey to be readmitted to the US-led F-35 fighter jet program, claiming that the move...

Turkish court orders 67 jailed in ISIL investigation after İstanbul raids

An İstanbul court ordered 67 suspects jailed pending trial after prosecutors brought 147 people to court in an investigation into the Islamic State in...

Turkey mulls amending sentence enforcement law to release PKK convicts: report

Turkey’s ruling party is working on an amendment to a law regulating sentence enforcement that would cut the mandatory time served for some people...

Turkish lawyer detained in Mozambique over extradition request denied access to legal counsel

Emre Çınar, a Turkish lawyer detained in Mozambique following an extradition request from Turkish authorities over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has...

Civil servant dismissed over alleged Gülen links and stripped of state-paid medical care dies

Ramazan Çınkır, a former civil servant who was dismissed by an emergency decree over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement and stripped of...

Report documents widespread violence against women in Turkey in 2025

Four hundred twenty women were murdered in Turkey and 508 others died under suspicious circumstances in 2025, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing...

Turkey’s Court of Accounts finds unlawful payments at loss-making gas company BOTAŞ

Turkey’s top state audit body has found regulatory violations in salary and benefit payments at the state-owned Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAŞ), which reported a...

İstanbul Gaza march seen as PR for Erdoğan’s son, slammed for excluding critics of gov’t trade with Israel

A New Year’s Day march for solidarity with Gaza that drew hundreds of thousands to central İstanbul is fueling a wave of criticism claiming...

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