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Turkey’s new prison courtroom can accommodate mass trials of hundreds

Turkey is building a huge new courtroom inside its largest prison complex on the outskirts of İstanbul that can accommodate the mass trials of...

Turkey detained 24 journalists in 2025, RSF barometer on abuses shows

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) logged 24 cases of journalists detained in Turkey in 2025, including YouTube hosts, television anchors and staff of a leading...

Foreign-owned firms in Turkey surpass 10,000 in 2023, generating 12.8 percent of total business turnover

Foreign-owned companies in Turkey generated 12.8 percent of the country’s total business turnover in 2023, as their number rose to 10,265, exceeding 10,000 for...

Turkey jails students under terrorist designation that fails basic legal test: UN rapporteurs

UN special rapporteurs have warned that Turkey is jailing university students as “terrorists” under a terrorism label for the faith-based Gülen movement that they...

[OPINION] The Öcalan initiative: peace or a power play?

Adem Yavuz Arslan* For four decades the conflict between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has shaped Turkey’s political and social...

Police officer dies after being shot during drug raid in İstanbul

A police officer was critically wounded in a drug raid Monday in İstanbul’s Çekmeköy district and later died at a hospital, the state-run Anadolu...

Syrian Kurdish leader joins İstanbul peace conference online after Turkish gov’t blocks her entry

A senior Syrian Kurdish political leader addressed a peace conference in İstanbul by video on Saturday after the Turkish government denied permission for her...

EU rapporteur calls Turkey’s rule of law ‘a disaster’ in Ankara visit

Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, said the rule of law in Turkey is “a complete disaster,” at a press conference...

Turkey, 7 Muslim-majority nations warn Israel against ‘transferring’ Gazans to Egypt

Turkey and seven other Muslim-majority countries issued a joint warning on Friday against any Israeli move to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing “in one direction,”...

US ambassador says key obstacle to Turkey’s F-35 return may soon be resolved: report

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has said Turkey is moving closer to removing a key obstacle caused by its acquisition of a Russian...

Turkey detains 35 in widening football betting probe

The İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office said Friday it had ordered the detention of 46 people, among them 29 footballers, as part of a sprawling...

Turkey summons Russian, Ukrainian envoys after Black Sea drone strikes

Turkey has summoned Russian and Ukrainian envoys after several Black Sea drone attacks claimed by Kyiv on Russia-linked tankers, a Turkish foreign ministry source...

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