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Investigation launched over opposition billboards questioning sale of forex reserves

Alleging the insult of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Mudanya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the installation of billboards in Bursa’s Mudanya district...

Only 30 pct of applicants granted unemployment benefits amid pandemic in 2021

Out of 194,369 people in Turkey who applied for unemployment benefits in the first three months of 2021, only 57,898 of them were approved...

Turkey issued detention warrants for 123 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 123 people including doctors, lawyers, academics, active duty and dismissed military officers and...

Mass detentions of Gülen movement followers since 2014 ‘politically motivated’: report

A report recently released by a Brussels-based human rights monitor has pointed to the political motivation behind a mass detention campaign that has systematically...

Pinterest jumps on bandwagon to appoint local representative to Turkey

The popular image-sharing platform Pinterest has announced that it will appoint a local representative to Turkey in line with a controversial social media law...

Turkish mob boss among 63 organized crime suspects targeted in police operation

Turkish mafia leader Sedat Peker, who was once a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, was targeted by Turkish police along with 62...

US to send two warships through Bosporus to Black Sea: Turkey

The United States will send two warships through the Bosporus to the Black Sea, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Friday, as tensions simmer...

Turkey had the highest incarceration rate in Europe in 2020: CoE annual report

Turkey had the highest incarceration rate of the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) countries as of January 2020, with 357 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants,...

Turkey strongly condemns Italian PM’s ‘ugly’ remarks on ErdoÄŸan

Turkey on Thursday criticized Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's "ugly" comparison of Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan to a tyrant, Agence France-Presse reported. Draghi on...

Italian PM calls Turkey’s ErdoÄŸan a dictator

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday described Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan as a dictator, in remarks that risk further souring EU-Turkey ties,...

Chinese wolf-warriors meet their match in Turkey with municipal trench at embassy gate

Turkey's nationalist opposition has responded to a belligerent attitude from Beijing with workers from the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality digging a giant hole outside the...

English PEN launches campaign to send solidarity letters to Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader

English PEN, one of the world's oldest human rights organizations that champions the freedom to write and the freedom to read, has launched a...

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