Turkey blocks dozens of news reports on corruption and investigations
Turkey’s telecommunications authority has blocked dozens of articles on corruption as well as politically sensitive reporting on the independent Kısa Dalga news website.
According to...
Armenian genocide monument in Brussels vandalized by ultranationalist Grey Wolves
An Armenian genocide monument in Brussels was vandalized on Tuesday by the Turkish ultranationalist Grey Wolves.
Armenian journalist Aris Nalci shared photographs of the monument,...
Turkey indicts 50 people, including dismissed civil servants, over alleged Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 50 people in İstanbul, including 35 former civil servants dismissed by emergency decrees following a 2016 coup attempt, on terrorism-related...
Elderly political prisoner in critical condition after collapse in overcrowded jail amid extreme heat
A 70-year-old inmate in Turkey is in critical condition after collapsing during a heatwave in an overcrowded prison, raising renewed concerns over the country’s...
Turkey accused of targeting Kurds in retaliatory airstrikes following Ankara suicide bombing
Recent Turkish airstrikes in northeastern Syria in response to a suicide bombing in Ankara on Sunday for which the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed...
Pro-Kurdish party discovers wiretapping devices in İstanbul headquarters
Saruhan Oluç, deputy chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) parliamentary group, said at a press conference on Tuesday that four listening devices...
Bar association executives acquitted for 6th time in Armenian genocide commemoration statement
A court has acquitted 11 executives of the Diyarbakır Bar Association in southeastern Turkey of charges stemming from a 2021 statement commemorating the victims...
Turkey’s main opposition says Erdoğan is trying to retain power by removing alternatives, vows...
Turkey’s main opposition party on Tuesday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of trying to hold on to power by eliminating political alternatives, Turkish Minute...
Over 1,000 child sex abuse victims recorded in southeastern Turkey in 2 years
A total of 1,008 children were listed as victims in sexual abuse cases in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şanlıurfa over the past two years,...
US calls on Turkey to release jailed philanthropist Kavala
The United States on Wednesday called on Turkey to release Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and philanthropist, after a regional appeals court's decision to...
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