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Erdoğan replaces agriculture minister

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed Vahit Kirişçi as minister of agriculture and forestry after the resignation of Bekir Pakdemirli, according to a decree...

[OPINION] How bar associations enabled Turkey’s long-standing culture of impunity

Ali Yıldız* Impunity is the exemption or protection from penalty or punishment. In the context of human rights law, impunity arises when those who commit...

Turkey walks a diplomatic tightrope in Russia-Ukraine war

The signs of a Russian presence have long been visible in Turkey, from rows of tourists on Antalya beaches to Russian warships steaming their...

Patriarch Bartholomew claims to be ‘target’ of Russia

The İstanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the leading authority in Orthodox Christianity who recognized an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2018, claims to have become...

Erdoğan’s son-in-law introduces Turkey’s new combat drone ‘Akıncı B’

Selçuk Bayraktar, chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle producer Baykar and also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced that they...

8,454 Turks evacuated from Ukraine: Turkish FM

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced that 8,454 Turkish citizens have been evacuated from Ukraine thus far, the TR724 news website reported on...

Top prosecutor says Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention was unlawful

The chief public prosecutor’s office at Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has called for the cancellation of a presidential decree that...

Russian envoy slams Turkish media over ‘pro-Ukrainian’ coverage of war: report

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Aleksei Erkhov has criticized the Turkish media for allegedly pro-Ukrainian coverage of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, the Cumhuriyet daily reported...

Turkey relaxes pandemic rules, lifts mask requirement amid concerns

Turkey has lifted its requirement to wear masks outdoors and in places with sufficient ventilation and where social distancing can be maintained, raising concerns...

37 former military cadets retried, given life sentences again on coup charges

A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down life sentences to 37 former air force cadets in a retrial on coup-related charges due to their...

Turkey’s inflation woes pit tenants against landlords

Kicked out in the middle of a harsh Turkish winter, 30-year-old Erdem Yılmaz calculated that he spent two and a half months' salary to...

Turkey’s inflation surges to 54.4 percent, highest since 2002: official data

Turkey's annual inflation rate in February hit a two-decade high, data from the statistics agency showed Thursday, amid President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unorthodox policies...

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