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University graduations in Turkey erupt in protest over mayor’s arrest and diploma revocation

Graduation ceremonies across Turkey have become flashpoints for student-led protests, with demonstrators condemning the imprisonment of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and the controversial revocation...

Turkey’s Kurdish regions not yet ready to believe in peace process

Southeastern Turkey, where the army has battled Kurdish militants for decades, is not yet convinced that lasting peace is at hand. In a ceremony across...

Turkey has arrested over 113,000 since 2016 coup attempt as crackdown on Gülen movement continues

Turkish courts have arrested more than 113,000 people over the past nine years as part of an extensive crackdown that followed a coup attempt...

67 pct of Turks want ‘Erdoğan era’ to end, poll shows

Sixty-seven percent of Turks oppose another presidential bid by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to a new nationwide poll. A recent poll from the Saros Political...

Erdoğan declares ‘Turkey has won’ after PKK militants destroy weapons in Iraq

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that the country had achieved “victory” after Kurdish militants began destroying their weapons, marking a symbolic...

Top PKK commander says militants want to return to Turkey and join politics

One of the top commanders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has said the group’s members are ready to return to Turkey and...

Erdoğan adviser who promoted unorthodox economic policies dies at 53

Yiğit Bulut, a senior adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a longtime advocate of unorthodox economic policies that drew widespread criticism from economists...

Turkey fines Google $8.9 mln for non-compliance with competition ruling: report

Turkey’s competition authority has fined Google approximately 355 million lira ($8.87 million) for failing to comply with regulatory requirements tied to a previous antitrust...

Kurdish PKK militants burn their weapons at symbolic ceremony in Iraq

Thirty outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants destroyed their weapons at a ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish militants...

[OPINION] Turkey’s justice crisis under Strasbourg’s spotlight

Adem Yavuz Arslan* This week the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued another series of judgments against Turkey, which raised the number of individuals whose...

Delegation leaves Diyarbakır for PKK’s symbolic laying-down-of-arms ceremony in Iraq

A delegation of journalists, politicians, civil society leaders and pro-Kurdish party members departed Diyarbakır on Thursday for northern Iraq to attend a ceremony in...

Erdoğan demotes propaganda chief amid speculation of tensions with head of intelligence

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has removed longtime communications director Fahrettin Altun, reassigning him to lead the country’s human rights and equality agency, a...

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