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Controversial Hagia Sophia imam resigns after warnings from gov’t officials

Professor Mehmet Boynukalın, the chief imam of the Hagia Sophia mosque who has recently made the headlines with controversial remarks on such topics as...

Top court annuls state of emergency decree that closed down media outlets

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has cancelled an article of a government decree issued in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016 that led...

Top court gives green light to headscarf freedom in Turkish military

Turkey’s top administrative court, the Council of State, has rejected an application seeking the reinstatement of a headscarf ban in the Turkish Armed Forces...

Turkey’s presidential system has crippled institutions, weakened parliament: SWP report

A recent report by a prominent German think tank states that Turkey’s presidential system has crippled institutions in the country, weakening the parliament, undermining...

EU lawmakers demand answers over Turkey ‘sofagate’ furore

EU lawmakers on Thursday called for the bloc's top two officials to explain a snowballing diplomatic scandal that saw Commission head Ursula von der...

Turkey blames EU for ‘sofagate’ scandal in Ankara

Turkey on Wednesday blamed the EU for seating arrangements that left European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen without a chair during a meeting...

Turkish Twitter users call on authorities to release mother of boy struggling with leukemia

Turkish Twitter users conducted a hashtag campaign yesterday calling on authorities to release Sabriye DaÄŸdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, who is...

Turkey records highest number of infections since pandemic’s start

Turkey on Wednesday reported over 50,000 new coronavirus infections, its highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic over a year ago, Agence...

ErdoÄŸan’s iron fist: Turkey since failed 2016 coup

As Turkey jails 32 former soldiers in the last mass trial stemming from the failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, we look...

Turkey continued to punish dissent in 2020: Amnesty annual report

Turkey continued to apply broadly defined anti-terrorism laws to punish acts protected under international human rights law in 2020, disregarding fair trial guarantees and...

5,000 Boğaziçi University alumni call on pro-gov’t rector Bulu to resign

A total of 5,000 graduates of İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University have jointly called on new rector Melih Bulu, a member of the ruling Justice...

8 ISIL members had been granted Turkish citizenship, report reveals

Eight members of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group whose names are on a list of 377 individuals and...

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