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Turkish Justice Ministry expands operations to cope with skyrocketing debt collection, bankruptcy cases

An overwhelming number of debt collection and bankruptcy cases has prompted Turkey's Justice Ministry to lease two multi-story buildings in İstanbul , the Sözcü...

Turkey’s intensive care units at 100 percent capacity, says professor

Professor İsmail Cinel, head of the Turkish Society of Intensive Care Medicine, has said due to the soaring number of coronavirus cases in Turkey,...

Book for young people banned in Turkey for promoting ‘immorality’

Turkish authorities have banned a book by the famous Austrian writer Christine Nöstlinger on the grounds that it promotes immorality, the Birgün daily reported. The...

20 healthcare professionals in Turkey lost to COVID-19 in a week

Twenty healthcare workers have died over the past week while combatting the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) announced. More and more healthcare workers...

Minority language newspapers in Turkey in financial bottleneck as state aid cut

The prospects of the survival of minority language newspapers in Turkey look dimmer after the country’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK) failed to make a...

Turkey’s former finance minister Albayrak resigns from Wealth Fund

Former Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak, a son-in-law to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has resigned from his position as the deputy chair...

Fifth anniversary of Kurdish lawyer’s murder commemorated on social media amid pandemic

Tahir Elçi, a prominent Kurdish human rights activist and former head of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, was remembered by his family members, colleagues and...

Opposition leader slams Turkish government for shortage of COVID-19, influenza vaccines

Ali Babacan, leader of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government for...

Erdoğan’s army

Cevheri Güven After Turkey’s switch to a presidential system of governance, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan embarked on a major reorganization of the country’s security structure...

Turkey’s judicial council rewards judges and prosecutors for their role in gov’t-led prosecutions: report

Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) on Friday named 11 judges and prosecutors, many of whom played critical roles in government-led prosecutions, as...

4 detained in police raid of Kurdish party branch, other locations in eastern Turkey

Four people were detained when Turkish police raided the provincial office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and various other locations in the...

Turkish MP hints at fraud in national lottery after same numbers drawn twice in row

An opposition lawmaker has hinted at fraud in Turkey’s national lottery, Milli Piyango, after four out of six numbers drawn separately on November 18...

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