Thousands of people protested in Istanbul this week against a new bill that officials say is aimed at reducing the numbers of stray dogs in Turkey, but that animal welfare groups fear could lead to mass culling across the country, Euronews reported. Earlier this month, a...
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Turkey’s top electoral authority on Wednesday reinstated a pro-Kurdish opposition politician who won Sunday’s mayoral election but whose subsequent disqualification from office sparked large protests in the southeastern city of Van, dealing an additional blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party, the Financial Times...
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Efforts by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to retake key cities in Sunday’s local elections were stunningly rebuffed with the opposition party winning historic victories in Istanbul and the capital Ankara, early results showed Monday, the BBC reported. Voters...
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Turkish opposition politicians and bar associations launched protests and legal actions across the country over the weekend in response to a major constitutional crisis that has raised concerns about Turkey’s judicial system, Voice of America reported. On Friday, hundreds of lawyers from across Turkey marched to...
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Turkish authorities arrested scores of individuals suspected of having connections to the Kurdish militant organization responsible for Sunday’s suicide bombing attack on a government facility in the capital Ankara, the Financial Times reported. Two suicide bombers attacked the country’s interior ministry, with one attacker blowing himself...
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Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) criticized a reported decision by the Walt Disney Company not to broadcast a documentary series about modern Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, on its Disney+ streaming platform, Al Jazeera reported. The controversy began after a series of Turkish...
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Turkish voters gave incumbent leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan another five-year term Sunday, a victory that came despite a sinking economy and a united opposition, the Washington Post reported. Erdogan won 52 percent of the vote, the election board’s chairman said, giving the president a four-point victory...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing a runoff later this month after results of Sunday’s elections showed that he and his party defied expectations of winning the first round, the Washington Post reported Monday. Preliminary results showed Erdogan won 49.4 percent of the vote, while...
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Turkish politicians have been appealing to voters in the Mediterranean city of Mersin in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections on May 14. Mersin is the capital of a swing province whose residents could decide the seemingly tight race between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who...
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Two brothers rationed protein drinks to survive under the rubble of a collapsed building in the city of Kahramanmaras in Turkey, wrote the New York Times. In the northern Syrian city of Afrin, hospital staff named a new-born baby girl Aya, Arabic for “a sign from...
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Foreign relief and rescue workers have poured into Turkey and Syria this week following the devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that have killed over 21,000 people, even as locals are furious over the lack of help, the Washington Post reported. Around 70 countries and 14 international organizations...
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Rescuers continued into Tuesday morning combing structures reduced to rubble in their search for survivors from Monday’s massive earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria, in one of the largest quakes to hit the area in hundreds of years, the Guardian...
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The United States Supreme Court is debating whether the federal government can pursue criminal charges against Turkey’s state-owned bank, a case that has raised legal questions among justices and legal analysts about sovereign immunity even as Turkish officials are due to meet their US counterparts...
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In mid-November, a 23-year-old Kurdish woman from Syria planted a TNT-laden bomb in a flower bed on Istiklal Avenue, the lively Istanbul commercial thoroughfare that draws even more crowds than the renowned Grand Bazaar. The resulting explosion claimed six lives and injured more than 80 bystanders. Within...
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An explosion in one of Turkey’s busiest shopping districts killed at least six people and injured at least 81 others Sunday, a blast authorities described as deliberate, the Washington Post reported. The blast took place on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street, a busy thoroughfare known for its tourist...
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Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic ties, four years after the two regional powers severed relations following the United States' decision to open its embassy in Jerusalem, France 24 reported Wednesday. Israeli and Turkish officials said Wednesday they agreed to upgrade their relations to full...
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Turkey denied reports that it carried out attacks against civilians in Iraq’s northern Duhok province, where a strike killed eight people, including two children, and wounded 23 others at a tourist resort, Al Jazeera reported Thursday. On Wednesday, at least four missiles struck an area in...
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Turkey is ramping up pressure on Sweden and Finland to extradite those it deems enemies of the Turkish state as part of a deal it made to approve Sweden and Finland joining the NATO military alliance, the Washington Post reported. Finland and Sweden have been waiting...
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Turkey will now be known as “Türkiye” after the United Nations approved the country’s request to formally change its name as part of a rebranding campaign launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year, Fox News reported. Türkiye – pronounced “tur-key-YAY” – has been the country’s...
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Turkey is preparing to return one million Syrian refugees to northern Syria amid increasing economic woes and criticism from the opposition ahead of the presidential elections next year, the Middle East Eye reported. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced this week that the government is building 100,000...
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