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Activists renew calls for release of incarcerated mothers with sick children

Following the recent death of 6-year-old Yusuf Kerim Sayın, who was separated from his imprisoned mother during his struggle with bone cancer, human rights...

Turkey detains 928 in crackdown on unlicensed firearms following suicide bombing

Turkish law enforcement carried out a large-scale operation against individuals carrying unlicensed weapons and arms smugglers in the wake of Sunday's suicide bombing near parliament...

Turkey’s annual inflation rises to 61.53 percent in September

Turkish annual consumer price inflation climbed to 61.53 percent in September, official data showed on Tuesday, just below expectations and rising for a third...

Child whose mother was imprisoned over Gülen links succumbs to bone cancer

Yusuf Kerim Sayın, a child with bone cancer who made the headlines with a video of him crying and asking for his imprisoned mother...

Majority of Turks think their country is surrounded by enemies

An overwhelming majority of Turks, 64 percent, think they are living in a country that is surrounded by enemies on all sides, according to...

Erdoğan, chief justice slam ECtHR ruling on teacher convicted of Gülen links

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and chief justice Zühtü Arslan have condemned a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that...

Outlawed PKK claims responsibility for Ankara attack

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in...

Open Society Foundations urges Turkey to remove ‘stain’ of Kavala imprisonment

The president of the Open Society Foundations on Friday urged Turkey to release prominent businessman and civil society leader Osman Kavala after a top...

Festival canceled after row over censorship of film about Turkey’s purge victims

A municipality in southern Turkey on Friday canceled a 60-year-old film festival after a controversy over the removal of a documentary depicting the plight...

[ANALYSIS] How Russia exploits Turkish nationalism to expand its clout in the South Caucasus

Fatih Yurtsever* The outcome of the military operation launched by Azerbaijan against Armenia in 2020 to liberate Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven occupied districts around it...

Kavala says top court decision a product of mentality that disregards law, human life

Prominent businessman and civil society leader Osman Kavala has described a top court’s decision to uphold his and four others’ conviction in the Gezi...

EP rapporteur calls Turkey’s noncompliance with ECtHR rulings in Kavala case a ‘disaster’

Nacho Sanchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, has slammed the upholding of the convictions of five defendants in the Gezi Park trial, describing...

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