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Jailed İstanbul mayor dares Erdoğan to call early elections: report

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, jailed for nearly a year while awaiting trial on corruption charges he denies, challenged President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to call...

European Parliament urges Turkey to end expulsions of foreign Christians and journalists

The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it called Turkey’s targeted expulsions of foreign Christians and foreign journalists on national security grounds and urged...

160 Turks among ISIL detainees transferred from Syria to Iraq

Thousands of detainees held over Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) links and transferred in recent weeks from northeastern Syria to Iraq...

Turkey’s central bank raises its year-end inflation forecast

Turkey’s central bank raised its end of 2026 inflation forecast range to from 13-19 percent to 15-21 percent and projected inflation at between 6...

A hardliner? Critics cite signals of culture war in Erdoğan’s pick for interior minister

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has replaced Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya with Mustafa Çiftçi, governor of northeastern Erzurum province, elevating a career bureaucrat whose record...

Baghdad summons Turkish ambassador over foreign minister’s comments on PKK presence in Iraq

The Iraqi foreign ministry summoned Turkey's ambassador in Baghdad, Anıl Bora İnan, following comments by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan regarding the presence of...

Justice minister appointment confirms political crackdown, says Turkey’s opposition

Fatma Zibak Turkey’s main opposition party has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to appoint Akın Gürlek, İstanbul’s chief public prosecutor, as justice minister confirms...

Erdoğan names İstanbul prosecutor leading CHP investigations as justice minister

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has named İstanbul's chief public prosecutor, Akın Gürlek, as his new justice minister, Turkey's Official Gazette said, in a decision...

İstanbul authorities cancel metal band concerts and ban events at major venue

Concerts by two metal bands due to be held at a major performance venue in İstanbul were canceled on Monday after local authorities imposed...

Turkey plunges to 124th place in Corruption Perceptions Index 2025, tied with Belarus, Uzbekistan

Turkey was ranked 124th out of 182 countries and territories in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2025, scoring 31 points, below the Eastern Europe...

Prosecutors seek aggravated life for celebrity manager over role in Gezi Park protests

Turkish prosecutors have asked a court to sentence celebrity manager Ayşe Barım to aggravated life imprisonment, escalating the charge in a case that accuses...

Turkey sliding into industrial decline, engineers warn

Turkey is deindustrializing at a dangerous pace, with rising fragility across its industrial base that threatens to lock the country into long-term dependence on...

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