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İstanbul Municipality awarded tenders worth $1.7 bln to 5 contractors in AKP era

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality awarded tenders worth TL 17 billion ($1.7 billion) to five construction companies in the span of nine years between 2010...

Police detain 45 Boğaziçi students for attempting to set up ‘resistance tent’

Turkish police have detained 45 students from İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University for attempting to set up what they call a “resistance tent” in front of...

Victims’ families outraged as court sentences single defendant in Suruç massacre case

The families of victims of an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide attack in the Suruç district of Şanlıurfa province six...

Opposition slams AKP gov’t for Turkey’s placement under FATF monitoring

Senior opposition party members criticized the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after Turkey was placed under surveillance by global money-laundering watchdog the Financial...

Out of sight for 4 years, Iranian-Turkish gold trader Zarrab spotted in Florida

Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who back in 2017 struck a plea deal in a sanctions evasion case before a New York federal...

Jailed philanthropist says will no longer attend hearings as a fair trial is unlikely

Prominent philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala, who has been behind bars on politically motivated charges since 2017, has said he will no longer attend...

Exiled tycoon contests ECtHR decision declaring 2018 complaint ‘inadmissible’

Akın İpek, a Turkish businessman and the founder of Koza İpek Holding who has been living in the UK since 2015, has called on...

24 judges, prosecutors face complaint for inaction over threats, insults on social media

An opposition lawmaker has filed criminal complaints against 21 prosecutors and three judges who refused to process criminal complaints regarding insults and threats made...

Social media influencer gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting men’

A Turkish court on Friday handed down a five-month suspended sentence to Pınar Yıldırım, a popular social media influencer known as “Pucca,” on charges...

Fake diplomas from all universities sold online for $52 in Turkey

Fake diplomas for all universities in Turkey including the most prestigious institutions are being sold online for TL 500 ($52), the Sözcü daily reported...

Erdoğan says social media has become a threat to national security

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said social media platforms over which there is no supervision have become a threat to countries' democracy and...

Greece strips and beats 13 Moroccan migrants, pushes them back to Turkey

Thirteen Moroccan nationals who had illegally crossed into Greece from the Turkish province of Edirne were stripped and beaten before they were illegally sent...

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