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Turkish court orders journalists to pay damages to retired general

A court in İstanbul has ordered four journalists to pay damages to a retired general due to five articles that were published in the...

Turkey’s competition board fines Meta $37.2 mln in data-sharing probe: report

Turkey's competition board fined Meta Platforms 1.2 billion lira ($37.20 million) on Wednesday after concluding two separate investigations on data-sharing in its Facebook, Instagram,...

İstanbul mayor slams Europe for Gaza, refugee policies during Europe Day event

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu criticized Europe's refugee policy and its lack of adequate response to the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza...

Turkey begins trial of public officials over mining disaster a decade after tragedy

A Turkish court on Wednesday began to hear the trial of 28 public officials – including inspectors from two ministries – who are accused...

Number of arrests over May Day demonstrations rises to 49

With 11 more arrests ordered by an İstanbul court on Monday, the number of people arrested for allegedly resisting law enforcement on May Day...

Report by German NGO links AKP electoral defeat to economic misery, corruption, nepotism

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered a historic defeat in the March 31 local elections due to economic deterioration in the country...

Amnesty says Somali strikes with Turkish drones killed civilians

Twin airstrikes by Somalia's military using Turkish drones killed 23 civilians, including 14 children, in March, rights watchdog Amnesty International said Tuesday, calling for...

Erdoğan opens another iconic church to Muslim prayer

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday opened for worship a mosque converted from an ancient Greek Orthodox church in İstanbul, four years after...

A purge so brutal its story cannot be told: the film the Turkish gov’t wants to bury

Bünyamin Tekin The Turkish government has been going after a documentary film since its production began in 2017. The film, directed by Nejla Demirci, sheds light...

Turkey arrests 38 over May Day demonstrations

Thirty-eight people who allegedly resisted law enforcement on Wednesday in an attempt to hold a demonstration in İstanbul’s Taksim Square to mark International Workers’...

S&P upgrades Turkey’s credit rating from B to B+: report

S&P Global Ratings moved Turkey’s long-term sovereign rating one notch higher to B+ from B, with a positive outlook, Bloomberg reported, citing a statement...

Sudanese army chief’s son dies of injuries following motorcycle crash

The son of Sudanese army chief and de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who was seriously injured in a March traffic accident in Turkey,...

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