10,000 doctors in Turkey have sought early retirement or resigned in the past year:...
Approximately 10,000 Turkish doctors have resigned or requested early retirement to seek better job opportunities abroad since July 2021, the Sözcü daily reported, citing...
Turkey detains journalist Özbek for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
Gökhan Özbek, a freelance journalist and an outspoken critic of Turkey’s post-coup human rights abuses, was detained on Thursday for allegedly insulting Turkey's autocratic...
Turkey arrests popular Twitter users for spreading ‘terrorist propaganda’
Turkish authorities on Friday arrested two of the three well-known anonymous Twitter users who were detained on Wednesday and Thursday.
Mesut Aykin, who reportedly runs...
Turkish mayor says Sinop chosen for nuclear plant to minimize loss of life due...
The mayor of Turkey’s Black Sea city of Sinop has claimed that the government chose Sinop as a location for a nuclear power plant...
Turkish strikes kill 27 civilians in Syria: rights group
Turkish drone strikes killed 27 civilians in Syria in a 24-hour military escalation following a deadly attack on a defense contractor near Ankara, Agence...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 19 former police chiefs, 12 of them arrested...
Turkish government has detained 12 police chiefs who were previously dismissed from duties as part of massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members...
Woman whose family died fleeing Turkey detained over Gülen links
Gülfem Yeni, whose husband and two children died two years ago in the Aegean Sea while fleeing oppression in Turkey, was detained on Friday...
Turkish police assault, detain purge victim protesting post-coup dismissals
A newly emerged video footage shows the moment Turkish police used excessive force against leftist activist Veli Saçılık, a public servant who was fired...
Court imposes access ban on 26 reports about bribery allegations against prosecutor
A Turkish court has imposed an access ban on 26 news reports concerning bribery allegations made by a mobster against a public prosecutor that...
Questions vetted in advance for Erdoğan on plane spark accusations of a stage-managed press...
Allegations that officials vetted questions posed to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a return flight from Washington have fueled accusations of a stage-managed press,...
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