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32 go on trial over deadly hotel fire in northwestern Turkey

Thirty-two defendants went on trial in Turkey on Monday over a fire at a luxury ski resort hotel in January that killed 78 people,...

Turkish prosecutors open new probe into main opposition leader over remarks

Ankara's chief public prosecutor opened a new investigation Sunday into opposition leader Özgür Özel for "insulting the president" and other offenses for remarks made...

12 soldiers die from methane exposure in northern Iraq, Turkey says

Twelve Turkish soldiers died after being exposed to methane gas during a search operation in caves in northern Iraq on Sunday, the defense ministry...

Erdoğan says peace with Kurds to gain momentum as PKK prepares to lay down arms

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that peace efforts involving Turkey’s Kurdish population would gain momentum once the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) begins...

Syria battles forest fires for third day as Turkey sends help

Syrian emergency crews continued battling forest fires for a third straight day on Saturday in the coastal province of Latakia, with strong winds and...

[ANALYSIS] Turkey faces economic trade-offs as NATO sets ambitious 5 pct defense spending target

Fatih Yurtsever* At the NATO Summit held in The Hague in June, member states agreed on a highly ambitious goal: to raise defense spending to...

Third person dies as firefighters bring İzmir wildfire under control

A forestry worker injured in a wildfire in the Ödemiş district of Turkey’s western İzmir province has died in the hospital, raising the death...

[OPINION] Clicks, code and control: How journalism is being strangled

Tarık Toros* Across the world, fundamental moral values, the principles that have provided social cohesion for centuries, are being systematically undermined. Yet historical patterns suggest that...

Boğaziçi University graduate detained for tearing up diploma in protest of İmamoğlu crackdown

Turkish police on Friday detained a university graduate who tore up his diploma during a graduation ceremony at Boğaziçi University to protest what he...

New indictment charges jailed İstanbul mayor with forging university degree

Turkish prosecutors have filed a new indictment against jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, accusing him of falsifying his university degree more than three decades...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s last card: the Kurdish question as a political tool

*Adem Yavuz Arslan A recent announcement from the two Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) executives suggesting that the outlawed group will soon destroy their weapons...

Turkey’s first lady touts religious tolerance at Vatican as rights violations surge at home

Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdoğan, met with Pope Leo XIV in a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, promoting interfaith dialogue and urging...

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