Union representing Religious Affairs employees demands ban on cigarette sales during lockdown
The president of a union representing employees of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs on Wednesday asked the government to impose a ban on the...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s new government spells more troubles for all
By Abdullah Bozkurt
An Orwellian nightmare is unfolding in Turkey, where life for Turks and foreigners has gotten much worse in the post-election period during...
Inmates report 45 held in wards built for 7 at Turkish prison, medical care...
Inmates at a prison in northwestern Turkey are being held in wards built for seven people but which are now housing up to 45,...
Academics face probe for protests against gov’t-appointed rectors
The rector of the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University, who was appointed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has launched a disciplinary investigation into academics who...
Roma conscript dies under suspicious circumstances following hate speech by his commander
Caner Sarmaşık, 20, a conscript who was being targeted for being a Roma, died allegedly by suicide while on guard duty on April 29,...
Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan media: MİT has located 4,600 alleged members of Gülen movement in 110...
The agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) have reportedly located 4,600 alleged members of the Gülen movement in 110 countries around the world,...
19 Afghan migrants, including baby, die after boat sinks off Turkey
Nineteen Afghan migrants, including a baby, died after an inflatable dinghy sank in the Aegean Sea off southwestern Turkey on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reported,...
Turkey’s earthquake victims still unable to meet basic needs 7 months on: report
Many of the victims of two devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey in February are still unable to meet their basic needs for water and...
US condemns Erdoğan’s anti-Semitic remarks
The United States on Tuesday sharply criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for what it called “anti-Semitic” remarks amid his denunciations of Israel’s strikes...
Int’l community should publicize legal status of jailed Turkish journalists, Altan says
Mehmet Altan, a journalist and economist who had been jailed after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 for almost two years,...
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