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Erdoğan spent a record $35 million from discretionary funds in November

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a total of TL 279 million ($35 million) of discretionary funds allocated for his use in November, a...

Financial Times selects couple behind coronavirus vaccine ‘People of the Year’

Turkish-German couple Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, whose biotechnology company BioNTech in partnership with US pharma giant Pfizer developed a coronavirus vaccine in less...

Turkey establishing centers to monitor COVID-19 patients post recovery

Turkey’s Health Ministry has unveiled plans to establish special centers to monitor individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 to observe the infection's effects on...

Broadcasting watchdog RTÜK contributes to increasing censorship in Turkey: HRW

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), is contributing to increasing censorship in the country by imposing punitive and disproportionate sanctions...

Power will not be handed over to opposition even if early elections are held, says Turkish foreign minister

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told an opposition lawmaker during budget talks in parliament on Monday that power will not be handed over to...

Turkish gov’t and parliament condemn US sanctions over purchase of Russian missile defense system

Turkey's vice president, speaker of parliament, foreign ministry, defense minister and four political parties comprising 90 percent of the Turkish parliament have all denounced...

Turkey’s cheap bread lines make a comeback after 20 years

In the early 2000s Turkey went through an economic crisis that served as a catalyst in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rise to power. People...

AKP gives cold shoulder to far-right ally’s call to shut down Kurdish party

A top Justice and Development Party (AKP) official has reacted negatively to a recent call by its ally, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP),...

Turkey plans to administer Chinese COVID-19 vaccine to 1.5 mln people daily

The Turkish government, which is expected to soon start administering its first doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, is planning to vaccinate 1.5 million...

Indictment seeks 10.5 years for opposition politician in case involving Erdoğan aide

An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of up to 10-and-a-half years for a politician from Turkey’s main opposition Republican...

ECtHR rules rights violated in first purge case from Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by...

Turkey accused of covering up death of 110-day-old Syrian baby from COVID-19: report

A 110-day-old Syrian baby died of coronavirus in Turkey’s southeastern Mardin province in April, but the details of the case were not shared with...

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