14 migrants dead after boat collides with Turkish coast guard vessel off Antalya
Fourteen people died after a boat carrying irregular migrants collided with a Turkish coast guard vessel off the coast of Antalya in southern Turkey...
OIC member states denounce Quran burning, urge OIC secretary-general to visit Stockholm, Brussels to...
The Executive Committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), at the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, convened an extraordinary open-ended meeting in Jeddah...
ECtHR finds Turkey violated rights of ‘woman in red’ Gezi protester over use of...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Ceyda Sungur, widely known as the “woman in red”...
Turkish minister of education signals possibility of controversial gender-segregated schooling
Turkish Education Minister Yusuf Tekin in a controversial remark on July 12 emphasized the need to consider gender-segregated schools to cater to conservative families,...
Court drops cases against officials in Turkey’s deadliest mining disaster due to statute of...
An appeals court in Turkey has ruled that cases against public officials over the country’s deadliest mining disaster in 2014 must be dropped due...
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...
4 Turkish students allege abuse after nearly 3 months in pretrial detention for protesting...
Four Turkish university students who were held in pretrial detention for nearly three months for participating in a protest against a Syrian government offensive...
Uyghur design director working in Turkey arrested in China during family visit
A Uyghur design director working for a Chinese locomotive company in Turkey was arrested by Chinese authorities during a family visit to Xinjiang, Turkish...
20 detained in probe targeting opposition-run district municipality in İstanbul
Twenty people including municipal officials and contractors have been detained as part of a corruption investigation targeting İstanbul’s Üsküdar Municipality, run by the main...
CHP’s İmamoğlu acquitted of charges of insulting AKP district mayor
İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has been acquitted of charges of insulting a district mayor in the city from the ruling Justice and Development Party...
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