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Turkey to supply natural gas to Syria: energy minister

Turkey is set to deliver 6 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day to Syria in the next three months to help...

Exile, digital censorship and fight for press freedom take center stage at journalism event in Frankfurt

As the world marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3, journalists, scholars and artists gathered at the Haus am Dom cultural center in...

Brazilian supreme court releases Turkish-Brazilian businessman sought by Erdoğan gov’t over Gülen links

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has ordered the release of Turkish-Brazilian businessman Mustafa Göktepe, who was arrested last week at the request of the...

Turkey blocked 27,304 social media accounts in first four months of 2025: minister

Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday 27,304 social media accounts had been blocked in the first four months of 2025 as part of the...

Authorities must protect Turkish Cypriot journalist after source murdered in Netherlands: CPJ

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Turkish Cypriot authorities to provide full protection to a journalist who exposed a cross-border corruption network...

AI-generated avatars of jailed İstanbul mayor flood X in protest of blocking of his account

Supporters of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu launched a viral online protest on Thursday after the social media platform X blocked his account based...

23 detained in new raids targeting döner restaurant chain seized over Gülen links

Turkish police have detained 23 people in a renewed crackdown on individuals accused of ties to a popular döner restaurant chain recently seized by...

EU ambassador to Turkey says İmamoğlu arrest slowed Brussels-Ankara momentum

Ambassador Thomas Ossowski, head of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey,  said Thursday that the arrest of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has...

Turkish lawmakers slam Google over declining traffic to independent news sites

Opposition lawmakers in Turkey accused Google of undermining press freedom by using opaque algorithms that sharply reduce traffic to independent news sites, during a...

Students questioned about lawful activities in Gaziantep investigation targeting Gülen followers

The number of people, mostly students, detained this week as part of a sweeping operation targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement has...

AI raises new risks, hopes for media, officials, experts say at event marking World Press Freedom Day

Bünyamin Tekin, Brussels Artificial intelligence is transforming the global media landscape in ways that both empower and endanger journalism, top officials and experts warned on...

Sweden urges Turkey to release journalist

Sweden's foreign minister met with her Turkish counterpart on Thursday to ask for the release of a Swedish journalist convicted in Turkey of insulting...

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