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Erdoğan’s lobbyists counter attack with ‘Stop Gülen’ billboard in NYC

Lobbyists in the US hired by the Turkish government have responded to “Stop Erdoğan” billboards in New York City's Times Square with “Stop Gülen”...

36 former and active duty officers face detention due to alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 36 active duty, retired and dismissed military officers over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, according...

Armenian cemetery destroyed during construction project in Ankara

An Armenian cemetery was destroyed during construction in Ankara’s Ulus district as part of a gentrification project, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing...

Erdoğan promises single-digit inflation, tax exemptions in new economic reform plan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to focus efforts to improve Turkey’s economy on bringing inflation down to single digits and introducing tax exemptions...

Germany’s Mainz University supports resistance at Boğaziçi against loyalist rector

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz released a statement supporting the resistance of students and academic staff at İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University to the appointment of...

People who say Turkey’s economy worsened under AKP rule ‘ungrateful,’ pro-gov’t columnist says

Ali İhsan Karahasanoğlu, editor-in-chief of the pro-government radical Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper, has argued in a column that Turkey’s economy is in better shape...

Turkey should end investigation of women over shouted slogans, HRW says

Turkish authorities should immediately stop the criminal investigation launched into women’s rights activists for shouting slogans at a March 8, 2021 International Women’s Day...

Turkish government once again green lights military cooperation with Moscow

Cevheri Güven As the Turkish government has been scrambling to mitigate a crisis with the US and NATO over its purchase of the Russian-made S-400...

Erdoğan’s U-turn on Egypt policy interpreted as ‘Isolation, pragmatism and hypocrisy’

Rumors and timid statements about Turkey's attempts to repair its broken relations with Egypt ended on Friday when Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said...

University graduates among 5,000 applying for 9 janitorial jobs in SE Turkey

A main opposition lawmaker said that 1,143 university graduates were among 5,217 people who applied for nine cleaning staff positions in Turkey's southeastern Adıyaman...

Pandemic wreaked havoc on Turkey’s labor market as thousands lost jobs in past year: report

A total of 728,000 people in Turkey have become unemployed in the last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report released...

Kavala, Demirtaş’s continued imprisonment makes mockery of Erdogan’s rights plan: AI

Prominent rights group the Amnesty International’s (AI) Europe Director Nils Muižnieks has said Turkey’s failure to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish politician...

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