Turkish police detain 57 in new operation targeting İstanbul Municipality
Turkish police detained 57 people on Monday in a new operation targeting an İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality subsidiary, the latest in a series of investigations...
Prosecutor demands aggravated life for man accused of brutally murdering Syrian refugees
An İzmir prosecutor has demanded an aggravated life sentence for Kemal Korukmaz, who allegedly burned three Syrian construction workers to death in November 2021,...
New bill extending state of emergency rules passes parliamentary committee
A new bill extending state of emergency rules for three years was approved by the Turkish Parliament’s Planning and Budget Committee on Tuesday, the...
Turkish court rules for continuation of journalist Gündem’s imprisonment over Gülen links
A Turkish court ruled on Tuesday for a continuation of the imprisonment of Turkish journalist Mehmet Gündem, who was arrested in November 2017 on...
9 CHP members arrested in probe linked to annulled party congress
Nine members of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been arrested in an investigation into alleged irregularities at the party’s 2023 congress,...
Survey reveals widespread perception of favoritism within Turkey’s religious authority
Eight out of every 10 employees at Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) said they believe that there is widespread favoritism within the institution, according...
Hate speech against refugees increases on Turkish social media as a new wave of...
Hate speech against refugees on Turkish social media has increased recently, with a new wave of refugee arrivals in Turkey starting as the Taliban...
Turkish court sentences 102 War Colleges staff members to life in prison over coup...
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal court handed down 35 life sentences and 67 aggravated life sentences on charges of “violating the constitutional order” due...
CHP delegates reach signature threshold in bid for congress after court reinstates former leader
Delegates from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) reached the required number of signatures on Monday to convene an extraordinary congress, after a...
MP claims Turkish military installed scanners, is strip-searching inhabitants of Kurdish village
The Turkish military has set up X-ray scanners at the entrance of a Kurdish-majority village in southeast Turkey and has allegedly been strip-searching incoming...
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