Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ: Turkish people are smarter than France’s Macron
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Wednesday said there are people working to discredit Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the June...
Survey shows 83 percent of Germans against selling weapons to Turkey
According to a recent poll conducted in Germany, 83 percent of Germans are against selling weapons to Turkey.
An online public survey conducted by public...
Turkish gov’t detains 29 people for depositing money in now-closed Bank Asya
The Turkish government detained 29 people out of 59 warrants issued in Ankara on Wednesday for depositing money in private lender Bank Asya, which...
Credit rating agency Moody’s slashes Turkish growth forecast to 2,5 pct
Credit rating agency Moody’s has slashed its forecasts for Turkey’s economic growth, citing deepening market pressure and growing risks.
Moody's said in its global macroeconomic outlook...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş: Europe has abandoned Turkey’s democratic forces
Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who has been behind bars since November 2016 and is running as...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep...
ECtHR fines Turkey 70,000 euros in two separate cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday fined Turkey a total of 70,000 euros in two cases that were brought to the...
Video footage shows elderly woman crushed to death by Turkish military vehicle in Diyarbakır
Recently released security camera footage shows how an 85-year-old woman was crushed to death by an armored military vehicle on a road closed to...
Lawyers for HDP’s jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş apply to Turkey’s top court for his...
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Tuesday applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court for his...
Turkish election board moves ballot boxes in Kurdish provinces, prompting fears of fraud
Citing “security reasons,” Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided on Sunday to move ballot boxes in at least 19 provinces from which the pro-Kurdish...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2024 in Review
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...