Opposition Candidate Elected Istanbul Mayor in Local Vote
After much fuss and wrangling, Turkey's Supreme Election Council confirmed that opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu won more votes than his rival from President Erdogan's party. The…
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Flynn’s Business Partners Charged by US over Illegally Lobbying for Turkey
Two former business associates of Michael Flynn, who previously served as U.S. President Donald J. Trump's security adviser, have been charged with illegally lobbying as "unregistered…
CPJ: Turkey Remains World’s Worst Jailer of Journalists
U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual report for 2018 on Thursday, naming Turkey as the largest prison of journalists with at least 68 media employees kept…
NATO Calls Turkey ‘Only Member Country That is not Free’
NATO criticized Turkey in a report for the first time in terms of democracy and human rights, acknowledging that the country is "the only member categorized by the Freedom House as 'not…
Turkey Ranks Second in Incarceration Rate, Following United States
Turkey has ranked second, after the United States, in incarceration rate among members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to the statistics…
Erdogan Meets Chief Prosecutor Amid Judicial Independence Row
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Ankara Chief Prosecutor Yuksel Kocaman at the presidential office on Tuesday, prompting criticism, on the day of the European Court of Human…
Poll: One in Every Three AK Party Voters Thinks Turkey is Going Downhill
One third of the Turkish people, who voted for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), believe that the circumstances are becoming worse in the…
Around 10 Thousand Turks Applied for Asylum in Germany This Year
The number of Turkish citizens seeking refuge in Germany has risen to nine thousand 138 in the first 10 months of 2018, with an addition of two thousand 286 more people compared to the same…
Poll Shows 41 Pct Support for Erdogan’s AK Party, 25 Pct for Opposition
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) received support from 41 percent of the participants in a poll conducted by the research center Metropoll ahead of the upcoming local…
Netflix Releases First Turkish Series ‘The Protector’ on December 14
Netflix announced via a number of billboards around the province of Istanbul that its first Turkish series The Protector is scheduled to be launched on December 14 , Turkish media reported…