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Jailed İstanbul mayor hit with fresh charges of ‘political espionage’

Prosecutors have filed new charges of “political espionage” against jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, deepening a months-long legal saga that has already kept the...

Turkey appoints trustee to run pro-opposition network TELE1

Turkish authorities have appointed a government-controlled trustee to take over management of TELE1, one of the country’s last remaining pro-opposition television networks, after the...

Israel must be ‘comfortable’ with Gaza peacekeepers, Rubio says amid talk of Turkish involvement

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that Israel would have a decisive say over the composition of an international peacekeeping force...

Turkey appoints deputy FM as its first ambassador to Syria since 2011

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan named Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yılmaz as Ankara’s new ambassador to Syria, replacing the chargé d’affaires who had represented...

Turkey’s brain drain led by engineering and IT graduates, official data show

The rate of brain drain among Turkish university graduates remained at 2 percent in 2024, with engineers and information technology graduates leading the exodus,...

Ankara court dismisses case challenging main opposition party congress

An Ankara court on Friday threw out a corruption case against Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on the grounds that it lacked...

[UPDATE] Death toll rises to 17 as migrant boat sinks off Turkey’s Bodrum resort

Sixteen migrants and a people smuggler died when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish resort of Bodrum, the coastguard...

Turkey’s central bank cuts key rate by 100 basis points to 39.5 percent

The Turkish Central Bank lowered its benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 39.5 percent on Thursday, marking another step in its gradual...

UK backs £100 mln export credit support for Ciner Glass days after CEO’s arrest in Turkey probe

The United Kingdom’s export credit agency said on October 7 that it will support approximately £100.5 million in financing tied to Ciner Glass’s new...

Turkey among countries enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza: UN report

Bünyamin Tekin A United Nations report has accused Turkey, along with several Western and regional powers, of enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza through continued trade,...

US, Israel at odds over possible deployment of Turkish troops in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s firm rejection on Wednesday of any Turkish military involvement in Gaza stood in contrast to US Vice President JD...

[OPINION] Turkey’s digital authoritarianism: How Erdoğan perfected the art of invisible repression

Adem Yavuz Arslan* When Oxford scholar Steven Feldstein published "The Rise of Digital Repression" in 2021, his warning felt prescient. “Technology has become not a...

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