Turkey building enormous wall on Iranian border to fend off illegal migrants
Turkey has been making progress in its plan to build a wall on its Iranian border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings, migrant...
Turkish court releases Erdoğan critic Hanifi Barış, a Scottish university academic
Lawyer Hanifi Barış, an outspoken Aberdeen University academic who has been jailed in Turkey since July 4, 2018 for posting critical comments on social...
Google’s algorithm changes and YouTube censorship deepen suppression of Erdogan critics
In early 2025 sweeping algorithm changes by Google and its subsidiary YouTube significantly diminished the visibility of independent media outlets and critical voices in...
Turkey escalates mass detentions in new wave of crackdowns on Gülen movement
Turkey has escalated the mass detention of people over alleged links to the Gülen movement, ordering the detention of 69 individuals in new wave...
Pro-Kurdish party office in Marmaris attacked for second time in a month
An as of yet unidentified man in the early hours of Friday staged an attack on the district office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...
21,800 people killed in work-related accidents during AKP rule in Turkey
A report drafted by Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) shows that a total of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents...
Autistic children in Turkey face major healthcare delays amid public hospital overload
Families of autistic children in Turkey have been raising concerns over mounting barriers to essential healthcare as the country's overwhelmed public hospital system struggles...
Turks, Kurds seeking asylum in Greece harassed, pushed back to Turkey by knife-wielding masked...
Fifty-three asylum seekers, comprising Kurds and Turks fleeing a crackdown on non-loyalist citizens in Turkey, were attacked and forcibly returned to Turkey by unidentified,...
Turkish diplomats spied on Erdoğan critics in Malawi, documents reveal
Judicial documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have confirmed that six Turkish nationals in Malawi had been profiled by Turkish diplomats and reported to the...
COMMENTARY — Turkey scrambled to contain fallout from Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
It appears Turkey’s intelligence agency, which has long trafficked, armed and supported foreign fighters in the bloody Syrian civil war since 2011...
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