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Turkey moves to block İmamoğlu’s int’l X account following ban on main handle

Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition’s presidential candidate, posted a defiant message from his international X account on Saturday, hours after Turkish authorities...

Turkish FM says he was poisoned with heavy metals as spy chief

Turkey's top diplomat revealed in an interview on Friday that he was poisoned with arsenic and mercury during his tenure as head of Turkey's...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s Turkey is too lawless to get even a mafia boss extradited

Adem Yavuz Arslan* As a result of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decades-long dominance over the media and use of aggressive propaganda strategies, both traditional and...

EU urged to address censorship by large online platforms at authoritarian governments’ request

Bünyamin Tekin, Brussels Speakers at a Brussels panel discussion marking World Press Freedom Day warned that journalists in exile face increasing censorship from large online...

PKK says it held congress aimed at laying down arms, to announce ‘historic’ decisions soon

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced that it held the congress this week called for by jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan, at which...

[OPINION] Despite his harsh rhetoric, Erdoğan’s Syria policy takes conciliatory line toward Israel

Ömer Murat* An examination of the speeches delivered by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the president of Turkey,...

Turkey, Israel to hold second round of talks in Baku to prevent clashes in Syria

Turkish and Israeli representatives were expected to come together for a second round of direct talks in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Thursday aimed...

Turkey blocks X account of jailed İstanbul mayor

Turkish authorities on Thursday blocked access to the account of İstanbul's jailed opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on social media platform X, where he has...

European Parliament urges Turkey to release Swedish journalist

The European Parliament on Wednesday called on Turkey to immediately release a Swedish journalist convicted by a Turkish court of insulting the country's president. Joakim...

16 face prison for allegedly insulting Erdoğan at protests condemning mayor’s arrest

Turkish prosecutors have filed charges against 16 people, accusing them of “insulting the president” during demonstrations in front of İstanbul city hall protesting the...

Turkey’s top court rejects petition to annul controversial stray dog law

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking the annulment of a controversial law that critics say endangers the lives of stray dogs across...

Turkey, Israel must ease tensions in Syria: analysts

Six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and Israel are both operating in Syria with starkly opposing agendas, stoking fears of a...

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