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Turkish economic growth fades to 1.6 pct in Q3 amid currency crisis

Turkish economic growth dwindled to 1.6 percent year-on-year in the third quarter, data showed on Monday, falling short of forecasts as a currency crisis...

[OPINION] Erdoğan, a modern-day Don Quixote, fights millions of monsters in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Just like in the novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, who created a fictional character named Don Quixote who jousts with windmills...

Rights groups urge Greece to scrap its part of EU-Turkey migrant deal

Human rights and migrant welfare groups are urging Greece to scrap its part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey designed to...

US prosecutor drops appeal to extend ex-Halkbank executive’s sentence: report

New York prosecutors have withdrawn an appeal to extend the sentence of a former executive of Turkey’s state-owned lender Halkbank, Reuters reported, citing the...

Turkey’s intel chief briefs some US senators on Khashoggi murder: report

Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), reportedly met with some US senators on Thursday to discuss the October murder of...

6 handwritten copies of Torah seized in western Turkey

Teams from the Uşak Gendarmerie Command in western Turkey have seized six handwritten copies of the Torah in two vehicles that were under surveillance,...

PEN declares jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş an ‘honorary member’

PEN Center Germany, part of PEN International, has declared jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for two years, an...

Turkey sticks with 5 pct target despite current inflation of more than 20 pct

Turkey’s central bank said on Wednesday it would stick with a 5 percent inflation target, a deeply ambitious goal after this year’s currency crisis...

Sean Penn in İstanbul to film Khashoggi documentary

Actor Sean Penn was seen in front of the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul, reportedly making a documentary about journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was...

Top Turkish court upholds jail sentence given to former HDP deputy Baluken

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a jail sentence of seven-and-a-half years handed down to former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris...

NBA Europe apologizes after excluding Enes Kanter from poster

NBA Europe has apologized to Knicks player Enes Kanter after the organization excluded the Turkish basketball star from a promotional Instagram poster of players...

Turkish prosecutors issue 228 warrants, police detain 166 in one day over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 228 people countrywide, 166 of whom were detained, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers...

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