Germany accuses alleged MİT agent of spying for Turkey, violating weapons law
A suspected Turkish agent is charged with spying on dissidents for Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and violating the weapons law in an indictment...
Turkey charges 4 journalists with aiding criminal organization in İmamoğlu indictment
Four Turkish journalists have been charged with aiding a criminal organization and publicly spreading false information in an indictment that also seeks up to...
Turkish actor questioned by police over Kurdish militant role in hit French series
A Turkish actor who played a Kurdish militant in the 2017 hit French spy series “The Bureau” was questioned by İstanbul police investigating the...
Turkish opposition figures allege censorship on X, citing sudden drops in followers and reach
Prominent opposition politicians and journalists in Turkey have accused social media platform X of suppressing dissenting voices through unexplained declines in follower counts and...
Exhibition depicting removal of Greeks from Turkish island cancelled for being ‘offensive’
A planned exhibition portraying the 1964 removal of Greeks from Turkey’s Imbros Island has been canceled after it was targeted on social media for...
148 workers killed in March as Turkey’s work-related death toll hits 432 in 3...
At least 148 people died in work-related incidents across Turkey in March, according to a new report from the Health and Safety Labour Watch Turkey (İSİG),...
Turkish gov’t detains 25 people, including military officers, over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 15 people, including military officers on active duties, in 14 provinces on Thursday following the detention warrants issued by Aydın...
Turkey to persecute journalists over naked detention pictures of PKK suspects
The Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Turkey's Muğla province has launched an investigation into those who photographed a detention procedure that included stripping suspected militants of...
Key coup suspect general says military chief failed to tell putschists to halt coup...
Former Turkish Air Forces Commander and member of the Supreme Military Council Akın Öztürk, a key suspect in a trial concerning a controversial coup...
Turkey’s jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş appeals to public via phone call to his wife
Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been in pretrial detention since November 2016, addressed the Turkish...
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