EU to host donor conference on Syria, Turkey quake aid

The EU plans to host a donors conference in March to mobilize international aid for Syria and Turkey following this week’s devastating earthquake, EU...

Turkey detains retired admirals over open letter criticizing government

Turkey on Monday detained 10 retired admirals after a letter signed by more than 100 of them warned against a possible threat to a treaty...

Turkish financial watchdog suspends stock market abuse article

Turkey’s capital markets regulator has partially suspended a directive related to insider share trading, it said in its weekly bulletin released on Friday, without...

Ex-police chief involved in graft probe targeting Erdoğan’s inner circle dies of cancer in...

Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former Turkish deputy police commissioner who played a key role in exposing corruption within the inner circle of then-prime minister and...

Battle to save lives in field hospital after Turkey’s earthquake

After being trapped beneath rubble for 180 hours, 25-year-old Abir is now fighting for her life in a field hospital after a catastrophic earthquake...

English PEN launches campaign to send solidarity letters to Turkey’s jailed Kurdish leader

English PEN, one of the world’s oldest human rights organizations that champions the freedom to write and the freedom to read, has launched a...

Turkish court rules to keep pro-Kurdish HDP’s former co-chair Demirtaş in prison

A Turkish high criminal court has decided to keep former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş in prison during a trial in...

Erdoğan’s party reintroduces controversial proposal allowing government to appoint trustees to companies under investigation

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has reintroduced a contentious proposal allowing the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) to be appointed as trustees...

German morticians work for dignified burial of earthquake victims in Turkey

German morticians are working to remove dead bodies from the rubble and ensure the proper burial of the deceased in southern Turkey, which was...

Former district governors are being tortured at Ankara Police Department, former deputy says

Thirty-seven former district governors who have been in detention at the Ankara Police Department for the past eight days are being tortured and mistreated,...
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