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German foreign minister calls for new refugee deal with Turkey
Turkey
June 22, 2021
German foreign minister calls for new refugee deal with Turkey
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has stressed the need to make a new agreement on refugees with Ankara, Deutsche Welle…
Top court rules no rights violation in case of police chief found dead in jail
Turkey
June 22, 2021
Top court rules no rights violation in case of police chief found dead in jail
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled there was no rights violation concerning the imprisonment of a former police intelligence chief who…
Turkey uses ambiguous counterterrorism laws to silence opposition: report
Turkey
June 22, 2021
Turkey uses ambiguous counterterrorism laws to silence opposition: report
Membership in an armed terrorist organization as defined in the Counterterrorism Law (TMK) and a controversial article of the Turkish…
Turkey to lift Sunday lockdowns in July
Turkey
June 22, 2021
Turkey to lift Sunday lockdowns in July
Turkey will soon lift Sunday lockdowns and roll back most other restrictions as its latest wave of the pandemic subsides,…
Erdoğan says Biden meeting opened ‘new era’ in relations
World
June 22, 2021
Erdoğan says Biden meeting opened ‘new era’ in relations
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that his first meeting with US counterpart Joe Biden had opened a…
IPU urges Turkey to end continued arbitrary detention of former opposition MP
Turkey
June 13, 2021
IPU urges Turkey to end continued arbitrary detention of former opposition MP
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organization of national parliaments, has said in a recent decision…
US ‘concerned’ about reports of educator missing in Kyrgyzstan
World
June 13, 2021
US ‘concerned’ about reports of educator missing in Kyrgyzstan
The US State Department is “concerned” by reports that the founder of the Sapat school network, Orhan İnandı, has been…
İstanbul mayor reveals sewage pumped into Marmara Sea before his time in office
Turkey
June 11, 2021
İstanbul mayor reveals sewage pumped into Marmara Sea before his time in office
Amid a “sea snot” outbreak in the Sea of Marmara, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has announced that he learned after…
Appeals court upholds 22-year sentence given to former Kurdish MP
Turkey
June 11, 2021
Appeals court upholds 22-year sentence given to former Kurdish MP
A regional appeals court in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır has upheld a prison sentence of 22 years, three…
Turkish court rearrests victim of rendition immediately after release
Turkey
June 11, 2021
Turkish court rearrests victim of rendition immediately after release
Ayten Öztürk, who was forcibly transported from Lebanon to Turkey in 2018 by Turkish intelligence and testified in an İstanbul…