Turkey detains 22 from İstanbul’s Şile Municipality amid crackdown on main opposition
Turkish prosecutors have detained 22 people from a district municipality in Istanbul run by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) as part of...
Bittersweet Easter for Turkish city’s dwindling Armenian community
The aroma of çörek, a spiced bun the Armenian community makes for Easter, is once again wafting through the streets of Diyarbakır in southeast...
Alevi houses marked with red paint sparks fear among residents
A number of Alevi residences were marked with red paint in Turkey's northwestern Yalova province, bringing back memories of violence against the community in...
Turkish police detain parents of 2-month-old baby over alleged Gülen links
Murat and Esra Yüksel, the parents of 2-month-old Selman Yüksel, have been detained by Turkish police in Kocaeli province over their alleged links to...
Cypriot farmers say Turkish forces tried to detain them in buffer zone: report
Greek Cypriot farmers told the Cyprus Mail that Turkish soldiers and police attacked them in the United Nations buffer zone near the village of Mammari on...
MSF warns of psychological consequences of quakes in southern Turkey
Earthquakes that struck southern Turkey in early February have led to less visible but significant psychological consequences for survivors, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also...
Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community: report
Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as “perverts,” saying the tweets...
Private media, like state-run TRT, minimize coverage of Turkish opposition
A recent study on news channels has revealed that not only public broadcaster TRT but also private media have allocated minimal or no airtime...
Erdoğan sues main opposition leader after claim that Trump is threatening him over personal...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed a 500,000 lira ($11,600) defamation lawsuit against the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party after he alleged that...
28 arrested in mass operation against Kurds in Diyarbakır-based operation
The number of people arrested after being detained along with more than 100 activists, lawyers and politicians in a mass operation targeting Kurds across...
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