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Erdoğan says Kanal İstanbul project ready to be put out to bid

Turkish President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his government is prepared to move forward with the...

Approval rating of opposition ally alarmingly low among AKP voters, survey reveals

Approximately 20 percent of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voters do not have a favorable view of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist...

Former cadets, officers among 54 detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained 54 people as part of an İstanbul-based operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the...

Minister accuses Kurdish villagers allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers of aiding terrorists

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in...

Six years on, gov’t crackdown on Gülen movement continues at dramatic pace

by Cevheri Güven A government crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement launched following a corruption scandal in Turkey in late 2013 and culminating in...

Turkey has removed 151 mayors on ‘terror charges’ since 2014: Interior Ministry

Ankara has ousted 151 mayors from office on accusations of terrorism in the last six years, replacing them with government-appointed bureaucrats, Turkey's Interior Ministry...

Health Ministry fails to dispel suspicions over coronavirus numbers in Turkey

The Turkish Health Ministry is still being accused of understating the actual number of coronavirus infections and deaths in Turkey even after announcing for...

19 including İstanbul district deputy mayor detained over alleged PKK links

Nineteen people including the deputy mayor of İstanbul’s Şişli district have been detained in an operation targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...

Turkey hands down hundreds of life sentences in 2016 coup attempt trial

A Turkish court on Thursday handed down life sentences to a majority of 475 defendants, including army commanders and pilots, accused of directing a...

Turkish health minister under fire after announcing number of daily coronavirus cases for the first time

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has attracted widespread criticism for previously hiding the true scale of the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey after he announced...

Minister: 292,000 detained, 96,000 arrested over Gülen links so far

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that a total of 292,000 people have been detained while 96,000 others have been jailed due to...

Jailed journalist says in letter inmates forced to live in cells invaded by rats

A Turkish journalist who has been in jail since March 2018 on terrorism charges has written in a letter from prison about the “inhumanly”...

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