Turkish man to change Dolar surname following depreciation of lira against US dollar
A man named Ferhat Dolar reportedly applied to the Dalaman registry office in Muğla province to change his surname after the Turkish lira (TL)...
Pro-Kurdish HDP calls Turkish gov’t to stop causing death of sick prisoners
Following the demise of prisoner Koçer Özdal (65), who was seriously ill and died in an intensive care unit while handcuffed to his bed,...
Journalist Yücel files lawsuit against Turkey for unjust imprisonment
Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel, who works for the German Die Welt newspaper and was jailed for about a year in Turkey on terror charges,...
Turkey’s ruling AKP’s spokesperson announces Saturday Mothers vigils prohibited in İstanbul
A group of mothers and other family members of people forcibly disappeared in Turkey since the 1980 coup have been banned from holding their...
US delegation to Turkey not eager to talk about pastor Brunson: report
A US congressional delegation that went to Turkey on Monday to persuade Ankara to abandon plans to purchase a Russian missile defense system in...
Turkish court rules for continuation of 86-year-old philanthropist Afşar’s imprisonment over Gülen links
A Turkish court ruled on Wednesday for the continuation of 86-year-old Turkish philanthropist Celal Afşar's imprisonment over his alleged links to the Gülen movement.
The...
Singer Tunç claims Turkish military threatening villagers in Tunceli to leave
Turkish singer Ferhat Tunç has claimed that the Turkish military has been trying to get villagers in Tunceli (Dersim) province to sign documents in...
Turkish opposition leader: Stop blaming failures on foreign powers
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday to stop blaming his...
Indictment levels terror charges at Turkish journalist who investigated coup attempt
An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor for Ece Sevim Öztürk, an investigative journalist who has been behind bars since June, accuses the journalist...
9 people trying to flee persecution in Turkey detained at Greek border
Turkish security forces on Wednesday detained nine people in Edirne province near the Greek border over their alleged membership in the Gülen movement as they...
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