Category: Politics
Members of the İstanbul City Council from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have voted against a motion that would grant “house of worship” status to cemevis, buildings ...
CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said Turkey’s foreign policy is being determined by Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the government’s efforts in Syria and Libya. ...
In January 1961, a law came into effect defining the rights of journalists in Turkey. Though President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the media are on the right track in Turkey, his government has clamped down ...
Turkey’s top Islamic authority is challenging 1,400 years of religious thinking, with a new ruling on the fraught topic of usury. According to the High Board of Religious Affairs, interest on home loans doesn’t violate ...
The proposed opening of three Turkish schools in Germany has rekindled a long-standing row. Here’s a look at why it’s such a sensitive issue in Germany. Coming after years of debate over Turkish influence in ...
Hakan Fidan The Turkish and Syrian heads of intelligence met in Moscow on Monday, in the first official contact in years despite Ankara’s longstanding hostility to President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Turkish official and Syrian ...
İstanbul’s new mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu in a city tram. İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has said the city’s plans to revive three rail system projects are currently blocked by the Undersecretariat of the Treasury, the BirGün ...
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 176 officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) including six F-16 pilots and four gendarmerie district commanders over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish ...
Hakan Sukur is Turkey’s greatest ever goalscorer and once one of Europe’s most prolific strikers. A legend. So, how did he end up driving taxis and selling books for a living in the US, in ...
TURKEY’S jailed former opposition party leader Figen Yuksekdag said “people power” would never be defeated after she was fined for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday. The court in Van province issued the 1,740 Turkish ...
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