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AKP accused of stealing from municipalities lost to opposition, deleting files to hide corruption

Allegations of corruption, misuse of public funds and deliberate attempts to destroy evidence of wrongdoing are being raised in municipalities that have shifted from...

340 detained across Turkey for protesting overturning of Kurdish mayor’s election victory

Turkish police have detained 340 people over protests that erupted across Turkey in response to a local electoral authority’s decision to annul the victory...

ErdoÄŸan’s son-in-law Bayraktar joins world’s richest on Forbes billionaire list

Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of Turkish defense contractor Baykar and the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has made it on to Forbes list...

Top election authority overturns annulment of pro-Kurdish party candidate’s election victory

Turkey’s  Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Wednesday approved an appeal made by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) against a decision...

Turkey’s top court annuls interior minister’s broad powers over civil society organizations

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has cancelled certain provisions of a 2020 law that granted the authority to the interior minister to suspend board members and...

Turkey’s inflation climbs to 68.5 percent in March: official data

Price growth in inflation-plagued Turkey gained pace in March, rising to 68.5 percent year-on-year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said on Wednesday. The increase followed...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party challenges overturning of candidate’s election victory

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party said Wednesday it was contesting a ruling that annulled the election of its mayoral candidate in the eastern province of Van...

Outrage erupts over election board’s denial of pro-Kurdish mayoral candidate’s win

The provincial election authority’s move to reverse the victory a pro-Kurdish candidate who won the mayor's race in Turkey’s eastern Van province, opening the...

Teacher’s retrial after landmark ECtHR judgment starts under tight security measures

The retrial of Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher whose conviction on terrorism charges was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to have...

We squandered chance to topple ErdoÄŸan in May: CHP leader

The leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) openly admitted that mistakes made by the country’s opposition coalition could have cost them...

Turkey’s hunger threshold reaches minimum wage

A labor union study put Turkey’s hunger threshold for March at TL 16,793 ($523), slightly below the minimum wage of TL 17,002, the Stockholm...

DEM Party victorious in much of Turkey’s SE despite claims of voter fraud

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) emerged victorious in Turkey’s local elections on Sunday, winning a dozen municipalities in Turkey’s predominantly...

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