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Greece, Turkey open first crisis talks since 2016

Greece and Turkey bowed to EU and NATO pressure on Monday and opened the first direct talks in nearly five years over their explosive eastern Mediterranean...

Turkey cracks down on migrant trafficking after talks with EU

Turkish police on Saturday detained 72 suspected migrant traffickers in operations across the country following an agreement on the need for consensus reached in...

Most people in Turkey are in debt amid COVID-19 pandemic, survey reveals

A recent report drafted by the Public Services Employees Union of Turkey (Genel-İş), affiliated with the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK), on the...

Support for executive presidency in Turkey below 35 percent: survey

Nationwide support for the executive-style presidential system that was adopted in Turkey with 51.4 percent of the vote in an April 2017 referendum dropped...

Man arrested for insulting Erdoğan after brief detention for insulting interior minister

A Turkish man who allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media was arrested by a court on Friday, two days after he...

Turkish, Russian forces ignore Libya exit deadline under fragile truce

Turkish and Russian forces ignored a deadline to pull out of Libya as scheduled Saturday under a UN-backed ceasefire deal, highlighting the fragility of...

Turkey sentenced 23 journalists to over 100 years in prison in 2020: report

Turkish courts handed down sentences totaling 103 years to 23 journalists in 2020, according to the “BİA Media Monitoring Report 2020,” released by the...

14 years on, justice still remains elusive in Dink murder case

Alin Ozinian Fourteen years ago, on Jan. 19, 2007, Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in broad daylight on a busy street in Istanbul....

Appeals court overturns verdict acquitting Kavala, others in Gezi Park trial

A regional court of appeals in İstanbul has overturned the decision of a high criminal court that acquitted leading businessman and rights defender Osman...

European politicians, experts discuss impunity in Turkey at online event

The Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led symbolic international tribunal to review and deliver judgment on Turkey’s human rights record, held a webinar on Thursday...

Messaging app promoted by Erdoğan can analyze users’ state of mind

Turkey’s BiP messaging app, which recently became compulsory for the country’s public sector workers and which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has personally promoted, has...

New indictment seeks 6 years for opposition politician in case involving Erdoğan aide

A new indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of between two and six years for Canan Kaftancıoğlu, a politician from...

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