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Kurdish businessman who made shocking revelations about Turkish gov’t detained in Spain: report

Spanish authorities have detained Kurdish businessman Muhammed Yakut in the northern city of Santander on an INTERPOL Red Notice that was issued at Turkey’s...

UPDATE: 7 killed, 1 missing in flash floods in northwestern Turkey

At least seven people have been killed and one is missing in torrential rainstorms and flooding in northwestern Turkey, according to Turkish officials. Five of...

Jailed businessman Kavala on shortlist for Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

Prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been jailed in Turkey on politically motivated charges since 2017, has been nominated for the Václav...

Radical Islamist party calls for nationwide ban on public alcohol consumption in Turkey

A radical Islamist party in Turkey has expressed support for a recent ban on alcohol consumption in public places in İstanbul, saying that such...

Organizers of art exhibition in İstanbul under investigation for LGBT propaganda

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the organizers of an art exhibition in İstanbul after the exhibition was targeted by religious and nationalist...

Number of asylum applications by Turks in Europe increases as approval rate goes down

The number of Turkish citizens who have filed for asylum in the EU countries, Switzerland and Norway has increased significantly over the past year,...

National women’s volleyball team’s European championship exposes societal fault lines in Turkey

The Turkish national women's volleyball team's recent European championship victory over Serbia has highlighted deep societal divisions in Turkey, eliciting reactions ranging from jubilant...

Part falling from F-4 fighter jet damages 3 automobiles in Ankara

Three automobiles parked in an open air lot in Ankara were damaged on Monday when a part from an F-4 Phantom fighter jet belonging...

Amnesty Int’l Turkey fires 8 employees after withdrawing from collective bargaining talks

The Turkey branch of the London-based Amnesty International has fired eight of its 24 employees after the failure of collective bargaining talks with a...

Erdoğan takes grain diplomacy to Putin in Sochi

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visits his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday in a long-shot bid to revive a Ukrainian grain export agreement...

[ANALYSIS] USS Gerald R. Ford and Selçuk Bayraktar: a new era of Black Sea security  

Fatih Yurtsever* On July 17, 2023, Russia withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Corridor Initiative, a key agricultural collaboration that had allowed grain export from...

Turkish court rejects lawsuit seeking to halt Sputnik Turkish employees’ strike

An İstanbul court has dismissed an attempt by the executives of the Turkish bureau of Russian state-owned news agency and radio broadcast service Sputnik...

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