Up to 3,000 doctors preparing to leave Turkey by end of 2022, TTB estimates...
Estimates from the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) have shown that 2,500 to 3,000 physicians are preparing to leave Turkey by the end of the...
European Parliament adopts report advising freeze of accession talks with Turkey
A report proposed by Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament (EP) Kati Piri and calling for freezing of membership negotiations with the country was...
Police raid wrong house in search for protestors, pin down disabled woman
A disabled woman was allegedly pinned to the ground by police who entered her home by breaking down her door in a dawn raid...
Retrial of rights activists begins in İstanbul after high court overturns their convictions
A Turkish court has begun to hear the retrial of four rights activists after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals overturned their July 2020 convictions...
Turkish prosecutor requests arrest of 28 workers detained at İstanbul’s third airport
A Turkish prosecutor has requested the court to arrest 28 workers who were among hundreds detained last week during a strike protesting dangerous working...
Amnesty International Director Dalhuisen denies Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu’s remarks
Amnesty International’s Europe Director John Dalhuisen has reacted to the statements made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and said that “Çavuşoğlu’s assertion that...
90 percent of Turks struggling to make ends meet amid economic crisis: poll
Nine out of every 10 people in Turkey, which is currently in the middle of an economic crisis as food and fuel prices have...
VIDEO — Resident asks Erdoğan to seize neighbors’ flats over alleged Gülen links
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The resident of a housing complex in İstanbul to which Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently paid a visit asked him to direct...
Turkish minister calls Kılıçdaroğlu as ‘terrorist’ while CHP decides to hold demonstration after ‘March...
Turkey's Customs and Trade Minister Bülent Tüfenkçi on Wednesday labeled participants in the March for Justice, which was launched by main opposition Republican People’s...
Pro-Kurdish Ağrı Mayor Sakık removed from post by AKP govenment
Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Wednesday appointed a trustee to the Ağrı Municipality, which was run by pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) mayor Sırrı Sakık.
Sakık...
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