Tag: Turkey
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 ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hoped positive steps will be taken on Turkey’s role in the F-35 jet program once US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, describing Ankara’s exclusion for purchasing Russian ...
FEARS are growing that Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) may be shut down after new terror charges were raised against the entirety of its executive committee today. Files have been lodged against party co-chair ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities gave the go-ahead for the emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd. on Wednesday, paving the way for the rollout for Turkey’s vaccination program ...
TURKEY has continued to expand its deadly drone capabilities, according to a new report that reveals an increase in the export and use of unmanned aerial vehicles in a number of recent conflicts. The Drone ...
About 15 years ago, Turkey had just launched its first satellite TV station and was able to broadcast around the world. A very popular genre of drama series called “dizi” had been born, and it ...
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 17 people after hundreds attended a student-led protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a rector to a top university in Istanbul. Officers conducted dawn raids in 13 districts ...
On December 16, the Istanbul metropolitan municipality, led by Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), named a park in Istanbul’s Maltepe district after Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, a racist anti-Semite and one of Turkey’s most ...
POPULAR Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas was charged with responsibility for a range of killings in Turkey today in a bid to keep him in jail after a European court ruled that he must be released. ...
The decade of animosity between Turkey and Israel, clearly a choice of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In August, The Telegraph revealed that Turkey had granted citizenship and passports to “senior operatives of a ...