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The outlook gets grimmer: Intensive care units filling up in Turkey

In April, Turkey reached daily new COVID-19 cases of 50,000, breaking national records since the beginning of the pandemic. The Turkish Medical Association (TTB)...

Turkish Interior minister claims number of femicides declined in first quarter of 2021

As Turkey receives growing criticism for withdrawing from an international treaty to combat domestic violence, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has claimed the number of...

Turkey’s unemployment rate rose to 13.4 percent in February

Turkey’s unemployment rate rose to 13.4 percent in February, up 0.7 percentage points from the previous month and increasing by 250,000 since then to...

Sofagate: EU leaders get a taste of their own medicine

Ali Dinçer* Last week EU Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen embarked on what they hoped would be an...

Scientists urge further COVID-19 measures in Turkey as daily cases exceed 50,000

The Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLÄ°MÄ°K) has recommended five additional measures against the coronavirus in a written statement, noting that...

Jailed rights advocate says he found document detailing strip-searches

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights advocate and former lawmaker who has shone a light on controversial topics including torture and strip-searches in Turkey’s...

Opposition criticizes gov’t by ‘swinging the sword of the infidel,’ Turkey’s Erdoğan says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan has used a religious and ethnic slur to describe non-Muslims while condemning the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP)...

France says Turkey ‘deliberately’ snubbed EU Commission chief

France's Europe Minister Clement Beaune said Sunday that Turkey had set a "trap" for European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen by forcing her to...

182 people killed, 371 maltreated, tortured in Turkey in March: report

Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in March included 182 deaths and 371 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 233 of them taking...

Putin calls on ErdoÄŸan to preserve Bosporus treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan to preserve an international convention, beneficial to Moscow, which regulates marine...

Turkey hands down 4,820 prison sentences on coup charges since 2016

Turkish courts have thus far handed down prison sentences to 4,820 defendants in 287 cases on charges related to a coup attempt that took...

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...

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