Category: Politics
ISTANBUL (AP) — Facebook announced Monday it has begun the process of assigning a legal entity in Turkey to comply with a controversial law governing social media companies. The law, which passed in July, requires ...
Sedat Peker, a Turkish mafia leader, was arrested in North Macedonia and will be extradited to Turkey via Kosovo, exiled Turkish journalist Ahmet Dönmez reported on Monday. According to Dönmez, Peker is currently held at a police station ...
The father of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who went missing more than a year ago and is feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence, said their lives stopped the day his son went missing. Tunç’s ...
Turkey condemned on Monday the comments made by Greece’s top cleric about Islam, describing them as presumptuous and noting that they undermine efforts to restart the exploratory bilateral talks on maritime sovereignty which are scheduled ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is under putschist military “tutelage’’ and will soon be “eliminated’’ by the faction that controls him, opposition Future Party leader Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Sunday. The Turkish president is also ...
ANKARA: Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his bellicose foreign policy. Ties between ...
A total of 4,801 people have died by suicide in Turkey due to financial problems since 2002, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power, while 1,370 of these suicides took place in ...
An annual report on human rights violations in Turkey, drafted by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu, has revealed 3,362 deaths and 3,534 incidents of torture or maltreatment in 2020, with 1,855 ...
Erdogan said that he expects to “turn a new page” in ties with Europe and “set a positive agenda” in 2021 Turkey also initiated the 61st round of exploratory talks with Greece on Jan. 25 ...
Left-wing CHP leader Canan Kaftancioglu inflicted a humiliating defeat on Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul in 2019. Now the Turkish president wants revenge in court. Canan Kaftancioglu has begun using the government’s own tactics against ...