Turkey to sell Boydak family’s textile giant Boyteks seized after 2016 coup attempt
Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put Boyteks Tekstil, one of the country’s largest textile manufacturers, previously owned by the Boydak family,...
Man jailed after alleged beating in Turkish custody taken to hospital with brain hemorrhage...
A man arrested in southeastern Turkey was hospitalized with a risk of brain hemorrhage after he was allegedly beaten by gendarmes and jailed before...
Turkish nurse detained over online hair-braiding protest linked to Kurdish women in Syria
Turkish police have detained a nurse in the northwestern province of Kocaeli after she took part in an online hair-braiding protest campaign in solidarity with Kurdish...
EU rapporteur slams ruling in İmamoğlu diploma case as court rejects appeal
Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, has sharply criticized a Turkish court’s decision to reject jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s appeal...
Man sentenced to 7.5 years in prison over alleged financial aid to Gülen-linked prisoners’...
A Turkish court has sentenced a man to seven-and-a-half years in prison on accusations that he helped transfer money to families of people jailed...
European rights court rules Turkey violated fair trial rights in dismissal cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday that Turkey violated the right to a reasoned decision of four applicants who were...
Turkish court sentences Kurdish journalist to prison over social media posts
A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish journalist Serdar Altan to one-and-a-half years in prison on terrorism-related charges in a retrial of his case, the...
4 arrested in Turkey over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of five people in Tekirdağ province, including four accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Veteran Turkish columnist imprisoned in post-coup crackdown dies at 72
Veteran Turkish columnist and political scientist Ahmet Turan Alkan, who spent nearly two years in prison over his writings during a post-coup crackdown on...
State funding for Turkish Maarif Foundation surges to record levels
The Turkish government sharply increased budget allocations to the Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMV) in 2025, with funding rising to TL 6.7 billion ($154.7 million),...
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