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Turkish Central Bank’s steps to shore up lira have limited effect

The Turkish Central Bank’s decision on Monday to shore up the lira had a limited effect, resulting only in a rebound to 4.24 from...

İnce promises to repeal article criminalizing insult to president

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce, who has been nominated by his party as a presidential candidate for the June 24 presidential election,...

1 seriously injured in attack on İYİ Party campaign booth

A group of unknown people on Sunday attacked an İYİ (Good) Party campaign booth in the Bağcılar district of İstanbul, putting one seriously injured...

Turkey deports 324 Afghans in anti-illegal immigration sweep

Turkey has deported 324 undocumented Afghan migrants during operations combatting illegal migration carried out in the country’s Aegean provinces, the Hürriyet Daily News reported...

Over 41,000 education staff dismissed since 2016 coup attempt in Turkey

A total of 34,000 teachers have been dismissed along with 5,882 academics and 1,372 administrative personnel from universities in Turkey as part of a...

Opposition party’s campaign booth attacked in Ankara

An unknown group of people attacked an opposition Felicity Party (SP) campaign booth as party leader Temel Karamollaoğlu was announcing his candidacy for a...

HDP members, including İstanbul co-chair, arrested in run-up to snap elections

An İstanbul court ruled to arrest 10 people, including pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul branch co-chair Cengiz Çiçek and officials from other branches,...

Gül confirms visit by army chief, Erdoğan advisor, says no threat was made

Former President Abdullah Gül has confirmed that Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor İbrahim Kalın paid...

Public survey played role in determining CHP’s presidential candidate

The results of a public survey may have played a role in the main opposition Republican People’s Party‘s (CHP) nomination of Yalova deputy Muharrem...

6 MHP deputies refuse to sign on to Erdoğan’s candidacy

Six deputies from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have refused to lend their signatures in support of the presidential candidacy of incumbent President Recep...

UNAOC cancels Press Freedom Day event over pressure from Turkey

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) indefinitely postponed an event at the UN on Thursday to observe World Press Freedom Day after the...

The Kafkaesque case of a visual journalist: Don’t forget Fevzi!

On the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, Can Bahadır Yüce, a poet, academic and journalist, has written an article for English...

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