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CoE ‘strongly’ urges Turkish authorities to release Demirtaş

The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on Thursday adopted an interim resolution "strongly urging" Turkish authorities to assure the immediate release of imprisoned...

Turkey angered by Syrian declaration vowing to ‘take back’ border province of Hatay

The Turkish government has been angered by a declaration recently issued by the People's Assembly of Syria, the country’s legislative body, which said Liwa...

Ex-prosecutor, wife fleeing Turkey’s crackdown perish in Aegean

A former public prosecutor and his wife, a former court clerk, died after a speedboat carrying them overturned in the Aegean Sea as they...

Turkey’s central bank steps in again to contain lira’s decline

The Turkish Central Bank (TCMB) has meddled with the foreign exchange markets by injecting dollars for the second time this week to stop the...

Opposition leader denied entry to Turkey‘s statistics institute

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was denied entry to the headquarters of the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), which...

Council of Europe to launch action against Turkey over jailed businessman

The Council of Europe said Friday it will launch disciplinary action against Turkey for refusing to free prominent activist and businessman Osman Kavala, triggering...

Annual Turkish inflation surges to 21.31 percent in November: official data

Turkey's annual inflation rate jumped over 20 percent in November, official data showed Friday, after a currency crisis last month when the Turkish lira...

Ankara urges Europe rights body to avoid any decision against Turkey

Turkey on Thursday called on the Council of Europe to avoid punishing Turkey ahead of a decision this week on whether Ankara could face...

Parliamentary committee OKs Qatari planes, personnel deployment to Turkey for training

The Turkish parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has approved an agreement allowing Qatar to temporarily deploy aircraft and military personnel to Turkey for training, the...

Opposition leader asks supermarkets not to raise prices of essential foods in winter

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has urged the management of supermarkets not to increase basic food prices in winter...

HDP co-chair meets with ambassadors of EU countries

Pervin Buldan, co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), met with the ambassadors of European Union member countries at a lunch hosted in...

21 teachers dismissed from their jobs in SE Turkey over ‘terrorist ties’

Twenty-one teachers who were detained in November 2020 as part of a terrorism investigation have been fired from their jobs based on a government...

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