Turkish government

The Communications Directorate of the Turkish Presidency has announced that Turkey will create its own fact-checking mechanism to “fight against lies and false facts on...

Private Turkish television station Olay TV will close down scarcely a month after it started broadcasting because of a threat of seizure by the...

Turkey's vice president, speaker of parliament, foreign ministry, defense minister and four political parties comprising 90 percent of the Turkish parliament have all denounced...

Claims by two opposition political parties of the illegal wiretapping of their phones and the discovery of four bugs at the İstanbul headquarters of...

Four people were detained when Turkish police raided the provincial office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and various other locations in the...

Several schools formerly run by the Gülen movement in Albania have been the subject of growing government pressure in recent weeks in the form...

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that it has lifted restrictions on 42,893 passports that were imposed during a two-year-long state of emergency declared immediately...

Turkish police officers on Friday detained 26 teachers, all members of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-Sen), as part of an investigation into...

A Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament is among 65 people including other Kurds and former public servants who have fled government persecution in...

The Turkish government registered a budget deficit of 109.5 billion Turkish lira (some $16 billion) between January and June, the country's Treasury and Finance...

Eighty heads of bar associations across Turkey launched a march to Ankara on Saturday against attempts by the Turkish government to amend the Law...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rise in authoritarian tendencies, citing a number of countries around the world including...