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Turkish Foreign Ministry rejects US criticism of protest crackdown

Turkey on Thursday rejected US criticism of mass detentions of students during a month of escalating protests, telling Washington not to interfere in its...

Ankara overtaken by snap election speculation

Cevheri Güven After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan raised the idea of drafting a new constitution and Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop called for a complete overhaul...

US ‘strongly condemns’ Turkey’s rhetoric against sexual minorities

The United States on Wednesday condemned rhetoric against sexual minorities in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasted the LGBT movement and compared student...

Turkey’s top court warns defying its rulings will give rise to criminal liability

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has underlined in a reasoned decision that lower courts don’t have the right to defy its rulings, warning that attempts in...

Erdoğan demonizes Boğaziçi protestors over Islamic symbols like he did at Gezi Park

Serap Demir When then-Turkish Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan realized in 2013 that İstanbul's Gezi protests had spread countrywide, he invented a...

Turkish defense minister invites Greek envoys to Ankara to resolve maritime disputes

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has said Turkey expects Greek envoys to come to Ankara for the next meeting in a series of talks...

Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges

Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country's Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...

Erdoğan, nationalist ally accuse Boğaziçi students of being terrorists

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right ultranationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli have accused the young people who have been demonstrating for weeks against...

Turkey’s inflation jumped to 15 percent in January: report

Turkey’s annual inflation rate climbed more than expected to 14.97 percent last month, data showed on Wednesday, driven by energy and food prices and...

Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police

“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...

Mafia boss indicted for threats against Turkey’s main opposition leader

Prosecutors in Ankara have drafted an indictment for notorious Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı on charges of insulting and threatening a public official due...

Rights group slams Turkey’s illegal transfer of Syrian detainees

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the illegal transfer to Turkey of more than 60 Syrians arrested by Turkey and its local proxies in...

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