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Turkey blocked access to 1,401 URLs in January: report

Turkish authorities issued 46 censorship decisions, barring access to at least 1,401 URLs in January, which concerned news articles, social media posts and domains,...

US senator introduces resolution to block F-16 sale to Turkey

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky introduced a joint resolution in the United States Senate on Tuesday aiming to halt the proposed sale of...

Turkey’s outgoing chief justice says top court’s rulings are binding amid judicial crisis

Turkey's outgoing chief justice, Zühtü Arslan, has stated emphatically that the decisions of the Constitutional Court are binding and must be followed, regardless of...

Russian President Putin postpones visit to Turkey

A visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Turkey that was expected to take place next week has been postponed to late April or...

Turkey detains 4 lawyers on ‘trumped-up charges,’ says jurists association

Turkish authorities have detained four lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing Turkish media. The ÇHD announced that...

158 workers died in occupational accidents in Turkey in January: report

A total of 158 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in January, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing a monthly report by...

Censorship of news of int’l probe involving Erdoğan’s son is unconstitutional: top court

Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that more than 500 instances of court orders for content removal or access restrictions, including news articles citing...

Turkey plans to convert another iconic Byzantine era church into a mosque

A medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church in İstanbul that has been undergoing restoration for several years will be opened as a mosque on February...

EU commits €755 mln in humanitarian aid to Turkey for earthquake response

The European Union has announced on the first anniversary of twin earthquakes in 2023, Turkey’s worst disaster of modern times, that the EU will...

Erdoğan’s promise to build homes for earthquake victims within a year remains unfulfilled

February 5, 2023 was a Sunday, and Turkey’s agenda was already full of issues. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the delay in Turkey’s approval of...

Turkey’s population hit 85.3 million in 2023

A total of 92,824 more people had been added to Turkey’s population as of December 31, 2023, bringing the country’s total population to 85,372,377,...

‘Feels like yesterday’: Turkey grieves on first anniversary of earthquake

Ravaged by grief, bearing torches and holding up portraits of their lost families, thousands of earthquake survivors gathered in the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday...

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