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Gov’t tightens grip on discount chains accused of fueling inflation via steep price increases
A new regulation targeting Turkey’s discount chains, which have been accused of helping to stoke inflation by means of steep price increases, requires them...
Turkey’s outspoken fashion designer Şansal: I didn’t feel safe in Turkey
Alin OzinianBarbaros Şansal, one of Turkey's most famous fashion designers and LGBTI+ activists, moved to northern Cyprus because he felt his life and property...
Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate has become a tool for silencing dissent
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has become an instrument for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government to silence dissent and cover up wrongdoing.According to...
Less than half of Turks find government’s pandemic response reassuring: survey
Forty percent of Turkish citizens find the government's handling of the pandemic reassuring, down from 73 percent in March 2020, according to a recent...
‘Off-mic’ remark signals soft negotiating posture of Turkish union chief in wage increase talks
President
of the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) Ergün Atalay
inadvertently gave away a lax attitude during public worker wage increase
negotiations with the Turkish government...
885 private companies transferred to TMSF since failed 2016 coup: report
Eight hundred eighty-five private companies have been
transferred to Turkey’s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) since a 2016
failed coup due to their alleged affiliation with...
Turkish government ends scholarships of students detained at LGBTI parade
Turkey’s
Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK) has cut scholarships and the loans of students
who were detained on May 10 during an LGBTI pride march in...
Widow of Turkish man who set himself on fire blames the government
The
widow of Eyüp Dal, who set himself on fire outside city hall in Gaziantep last
week, has said the government was to blame for her...
Opposition’s mayoral candidate says gov’t using convicted felon to defame him
Mansur Yavaş, the mayoral candidate for Turkey’s capital of Ankara from the opposition alliance, on Tuesday responded to allegations of misconduct and fraud, saying...
TurkStat: More than 13 million people in Turkey receive social aid
A total of 13,260,000 people in Turkey are dependent on social aid to survive, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat).In...
Search and rescue began 6 hours after deadly accident at new highway viaduct
Turkish search and rescue teams took six hours to arrive at the scene of an accident on Wednesday at a viaduct on the North...
Ex-Zaman columnist Ali Ünal sentenced 19.5 years in prison
The Uşak 2nd High Criminal Court handed down a sentence of nineteen-and-a-half years to columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily Ali Ünal on charges...