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Crime boss sought on INTERPOL Red Notice captured in İstanbul: minister

A crime leader who is wanted on an INTERPOL Red Notice by the authorities in Germany on drug trafficking charges has been captured in...

Turkey detains 165 in operations targeting Kurdish political movement

Turkish police on Tuesday conducted raids across 28 provinces and detained a total of 165 people, including peace activists and members of the Peoples’...

Turkish imports from Israel rose by 60.5 pct from October to November

Contrary to Ankara’s political rhetoric on the war in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, Turkish imports from Israel rose by 60.5 percent from October...

Turkey detains 18 social media users over comments about slain soldiers

Turkish police have detained 18 social media users due to their comments online about the killing of nine Turkish soldiers in northern Iraq on...

Prominent figures ask Turkish parliament speaker to safeguard jailed MP’s immunity

A total of 864 prominent figures in Turkey including artists, writers and journalists have called on Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş in a joint letter...

Kavala expresses surprise at ‘bold detachment from the law’ in his trial

Businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been in prison since November 2017 without substantial evidence to justify the charges against him, has said...

Turkey begins charging foreign tourists €25 to enter Hagia Sophia

Foreign tourists will be required to pay an entrance fee of 25 euros to visit historic Hagia Sophia in İstanbul starting January 15, in...

Prosecutors won’t investigate state-run TV for airing interview with PKK leader’s brother

Turkish prosecutors have found no grounds to investigate public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) for airing an interview with the brother the jailed...

Turkey bombs targets in Iraq and Syria after 9 soldiers killed in attack on base

Turkey said on Saturday it had carried out airstrikes on nearly 30 “terrorist targets” in northern Iraq and Syria overnight after nine of its...

Travel ban imposed on son of Somali president over fatal accident lifted after court testimony

Turkish prosecutors lifted a travel ban on Mohamed Hassan Sheik Mohamud, the son of Somali President Hasan Sheikh Mohamud, after he testified in court...

Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in access ban imposed on X accounts

In a promising development amid increasing online censorship in Turkey, the country’s Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the banning of access to...

Human Rights Watch says Turkey’s authoritarian order consolidated in 2023

The May 2023 re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the victory of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliamentary elections consolidated an authoritarian...

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