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Ankara overtaken by snap election speculation

Cevheri Güven After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan raised the idea of drafting a new constitution and Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop called for a complete overhaul...

US ‘strongly condemns’ Turkey’s rhetoric against sexual minorities

The United States on Wednesday condemned rhetoric against sexual minorities in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blasted the LGBT movement and compared student...

Erdoğan demonizes Boğaziçi protestors over Islamic symbols like he did at Gezi Park

Serap Demir When then-Turkish Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan realized in 2013 that İstanbul's Gezi protests had spread countrywide, he invented a...

Turkish court is retrying RSF representative on terror charges

Turkey on Wednesday began the retrial of the country's Reporters Without Borders (RSF) representative and two other human rights defenders on terror charges that...

Erdoğan, nationalist ally accuse Boğaziçi students of being terrorists

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right ultranationalist ally Devlet Bahçeli have accused the young people who have been demonstrating for weeks against...

Turkey’s inflation jumped to 15 percent in January: report

Turkey’s annual inflation rate climbed more than expected to 14.97 percent last month, data showed on Wednesday, driven by energy and food prices and...

Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police

“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...

Mafia boss indicted for threats against Turkey’s main opposition leader

Prosecutors in Ankara have drafted an indictment for notorious Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı on charges of insulting and threatening a public official due...

Rights group slams Turkey’s illegal transfer of Syrian detainees

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the illegal transfer to Turkey of more than 60 Syrians arrested by Turkey and its local proxies in...

Turkish minister says Gülen movement was not behind July 15, hints at US role

In sharp contrast to the narrative of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) regarding the masterminds of a failed coup in Turkey on...

Pro-gov’t Boğaziçi rector refuses to quit, expects protests to end in 6 months

Melih Bulu, the new rector of İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University whose appointment by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked ongoing protests, stated that he has...

Turkey makes first contact with Biden’s team

Turkey and the United States agreed on Tuesday to work on establishing "strong" bilateral relations, during the first contact between Ankara and US President Joe...

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