Category: Politics
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office issued a detention warrant for veteran journalist Cengiz Çandar on the charge of praising crime and criminals over a 2017 tweet mourning the death of a woman killed while ...
The father of Turkey’s best-known footballer, ex-international Hakan Şükür, has been given a prison sentence of three years, 45 days on charges of aiding a terrorist organization due to his alleged links to the Gülen ...
The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided that the right to life of Nigerian migrant Festus Okey, who was fatally shot by a police officer, was violated, Turkish media reported. According to the court Okey’s family ...
ANKARA: Joe Biden’s new US administration has hinted at pursuing a hardline foreign policy approach to dealing with NATO member Turkey. With American-Turkish bilateral relations already strained, Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of state, on ...
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 ...
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 ...