Grand Unity Party deputy targets MP over criticism of police
Kaan Şengil, a deputy from the right-wing Grand Unity Party (BBP), publicly targeted Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu...
Greece blames Turkey after migrant children drown in Aegean
Greece blamed Turkey for a migrant boat sinking in the Aegean that claimed the lives of four people, including two children, noting that Ankara...
Turkish labour union leader arrested over İstanbul airport protests
Özgür Karabulut, chairman of the Dev Yapı-İş labor union, has been arrested by an Istanbul court over his role in recent protests staged by...
Turkey’s top court annuls ban on damages for civil servants dismissed after 2016 failed...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled the provision of a decree preventing civil servants dismissed under emergency decrees in the aftermath of a coup attempt...
20,333 inmates in Turkish prisons have university degrees, a 151 pct increase since 2016
The number of inmates with university degrees in Turkey increased more than twofold between 2016 and 2020, reaching 20,333, EuroNews Turkish reported, citing data...
Turkish gov’t detains 90 people including 4 Kurdish journalists over alleged PKK links
The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 151 people including journalists in operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
UN-protected refugee shares harrowing tale of abduction, urges authorities to locate missing husband
Saadet Taşçı, who was kidnapped on Friday in Nairobi by individuals allegedly connected to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has recounted her harrowing experience...
Critics slam authorities for putting 2 student protestors in solitary cells
Critics have slammed Turkish authorities for putting two Boğaziçi University students who were arrested for taking part in protests in one-person cells, Deutsche Welle...
22 killed as truck carrying migrants crashes in western Turkey
Twenty-two people, including children, were killed when a truck carrying migrants crashed in the western Turkish province of İzmir on Sunday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu...
Turkish internet celebrity urges witch hunt against food influencer over alleged Gülen links
YouTuber, Twitch streamer and podcaster Ahmet Sonuç, known online as Jahrein, who was recently arrested on obscenity charges, has instigated a smear campaign against...
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