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[ANALYSIS] Putin and Erdoğan leverage Black Sea Grain Initiative for political gain

Fatih Yurtsever* The Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 led to a more than four-month-long blockade by Russian warships of Ukraine's Black Sea...

İnce, undecided voters will determine outcome of presidential race: veteran pollster

Political observer, pollster and owner of MetroPoll Professor Özer Sencar has said the results of Turkey’s presidential election slated for May 14 will be...

Opposition İYİ Party’s İstanbul office attacked by unidentified gunman after Erdoğan’s threat

The nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party’s provincial office in İstanbul was targeted by an unidentified attacker who fired shots at the party building days...

Turkish sociologist in exile faces fifth trial over deadly 1998 blast

A Turkish sociologist and author who lives in self-imposed exile in France goes on trial in absentia Friday over a deadly 1998 İstanbul explosion,...

35 children affected by Turkey’s earthquakes await identification: ministry

The Family and Social Services Ministry has announced that 35 children who have been affected by major earthquakes that hit southern Turkey in early...

Election authority dismisses objections, gives green light to Erdoğan’s presidential candidacy

Turkey’s top election authority has announced that there is no legal obstacle to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's running as a presidential candidate for a...

Turkey’s elections are more vulnerable than Zimbabwe, Pakistan polls: Freedom House

According to an index newly created by Freedom House, Turkey's May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections are among the most vulnerable in the world,...

Lawyers, activists hold justice watch for sociologist facing retrial after 4 acquittals

A group of lawyers and rights activists held a justice watch in front of the İstanbul Courthouse on Thursday for author and sociologist Pınar...

Erdoğan harassed top court judges over removal of freeze on HDP funds: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan telephoned some members of Turkey’s Constitutional Court earlier this month to account for their decision to remove a freeze...

Erdoğan ratchets up public spending to woo disenchanted voters as elections approach

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has unleashed a wave of public spending in recent months to win back support from disenchanted voters ahead of...

Jailed Kurdish journalists indicted on terrorism charges 10 months after detention

Twenty-one people, the vast majority of whom are Kurdish journalists detained in southeastern Diyarbakır province in June 2022, have been indicted on terrorism charges...

US downplays exclusion of Turkey, Hungary from democracy summit: report

Senior US administration officials have downplayed the significance of the exclusion of two NATO members, Turkey and Hungary, from a democracy summit hosted by...

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