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Minority newspapers in Turkey are struggling to survive

Alin Ozinian Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, during its last general assembly of...

Lawyer demanding fair trial re-arrested, beaten by police in custody

Aytaç Ünsal, a lawyer who had until recently been on a hunger strike in support of his demand for a fair trial, was detained...

Pregnant woman claims sexually harassed, insulted by prosecutor during interrogation

Nigar Kocabaş, a pregnant woman who in 2016 was interrogated by Chief Public Prosecutor İbrahim Keskin in the northern Turkish city of Samsun for...

Turkey plans to administer Chinese COVID vaccine to 5 mln people: report

Turkey plans to start vaccinating people against the novel coronavirus on Dec. 25, administering 450,000 injections daily, according to a news report by the...

Turkey’s top judicial body denies complaint alleging corruption, battery by senior judge

Turkey's Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has denied claims that it received a complaint filed against a high-ranking member of the judiciary by...

Turkey’s far-right party leader calls for closure of pro-Kurdish opposition party

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and election ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called on the Turkish judiciary...

Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate to make documentary, movies in İstanbul

The Department of Strategy Development of Turkey’s Presidential Communications Directorate is planning to shoot a documentary and two movies within three months, Turkish media...

Erdoğan refuses to declare 14-day lockdown despite calls from medical community

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has no plans to declare a 14-day lockdown to contain...

İstanbul’s Basilica Cistern at high risk of collapse, municipal officer warns

An İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) officer has warned on social media that the city’s iconic Basilica Cistern is at high risk of collapse in...

Turkey bars access to news reports on AKP-era corruption documents at İstanbul Municipality

An İstanbul court has blocked access to news reports covering the first file on alleged corruption in the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) during Justice...

Turkey now 8th in the world for highest number of COVID-19 cases

Turkey has moved into 8th place worldwide in terms of highest number of COVID-19 cases since Turkey’s Health Ministry began last month reporting the number...

Social media giants slapped with second hefty fine under controversial law

Turkey has again imposed fines, this time in the amount of TL 30 million ($3.8 million) each, on social media giants such as Facebook,...

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