Turkey questions journalist over report on plane crash carrying Libyan delegation

Journalist Tolga Şardan has been questioned by prosecutors in Ankara over his reporting on the crash of a plane carrying a high-level Libyan military...

7,600 investigated for insulting Turkish president in 2022

Turkish prosecutors launched 7,600 investigations into individuals on allegations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2022, the Birgün daily reported, citing data from...

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...

Turkey detains 126 in operation targeting Kurds ahead of critical elections

Turkey on Tuesday detained 126 pro-Kurdish activists, journalists and lawyers in raids conducted just three weeks before a knife-edge vote that could extend President...

Detentions, layoffs at major Turkish supermarket chain spark nationwide protests

Work stoppages at Turkey's major supermarket chain Migros have spread nationwide after the firing of 280 workers and the detention of nearly 100 protestors,...

İstanbul mayor’s bus pelted during election campaign

Angry protesters on Sunday pelted the İstanbul mayor’s campaign bus with stones while he was touring Turkey’s conservative heartland ahead of next weekend’s general...

Undoing Turkey’s founding vision is ‘treason,’ far-right ally says in veiled warning to Erdoğan

Far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli warned Monday that attempts to alter Turkey’s founding principles or its unitary state structure amount to...

Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election drama

Turkey braced Monday for its first election runoff after a night of high drama showed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan edging ahead of his secular...

93 former, current tax inspectors detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police detained 93 former and currently employed tax inspectors in raids across 11 provinces on Friday, part of an İstanbul-based investigation over links...

Hundreds of women killed in aftermath of Turkey’s withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Republican People’s Party deputy Candan Yüceer has said at least 603 women have been killed and 464 women have died under suspicious circumstances since...
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