Families in Turkey struggle with poverty, poor housing: report 

Families across Turkey have been grappling with deepening poverty and deteriorating living conditions, the Evrensel daily reported.   According to Evrensel, the Turkish Statistical Institute’s (TurkStat) 2025 report...

‘If enacted, even the grandchildren of dissidents will be excluded from public service,’ say...

A new bill presented to parliament by the Turkish government that requires security screening and vetting for job applicants for certain government agencies has...

Prominent journalist Cemal gets suspended sentence on terror charges

Renowned Turkish journalist Hasam Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of 15 months for allegedly disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization in...

6 migrants drown off Turkey’s Aegean coast

Six migrants drowned while another 27 were rescued by the coastguard when their boat started sinking off the western coast of Turkey, the interior...

Turkish gov’t escalates counterterrorism operations as elections in Turkey approach

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday said an operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had begun in the Qandil mountains on...

Women rights activists criticize low number of female candidates in upcoming elections 

Women’s rights activists have criticized the low number of female political candidates in Turkey’s upcoming local elections, saying it reflects the gender divide in...

Turkish authorities detain 91 more people over alleged Gülen links: minister

Turkish authorities have detained 91 people and arrested 64 of them in an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya...
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Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 34 military officers and more over alleged links...

The Turkish government on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 25 military officers and detained eight others as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...

Turkish authorities detain fathers of high schoolers prosecuted in notorious ‘girls’ trial’ in latest...

Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained the fathers of several teenage girls who are defendants in the widely criticized “girls’ trial” over alleged links to...

Turkey’s Ankara Mayor Gökçek hints ‘genocide’ for followers of Gülen movement

Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Turkey's capital city Ankara, has hinted a kind of "genocide" for alleged members of faith-based Gülen movement, in an...

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