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Erdoğan’s youth outreach livestream gets ratioed
Turkey
June 26, 2020
Erdoğan’s youth outreach livestream gets ratioed
Friday’s livestream featuring young people and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ahead of the weekend’s university entrance examinations saw a…
Transportation authority rejects İstanbul mayor’s plan to issue new taxicab licenses
Turkey
June 25, 2020
Transportation authority rejects İstanbul mayor’s plan to issue new taxicab licenses
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s plan to issue 6,000 new taxicab licenses and accompanying plates has been rejected by the city’s…
U.S.: “FETO” is not a terrorist organization
World
June 25, 2020
U.S.: “FETO” is not a terrorist organization
The 2019 Country Terrorism Report, published annually by the US Department of Foreign Affairs, emphasized that the statement Turkish President…
Coronavirus outbreak has cost İstanbul some $730 million, mayor says: report
World
June 24, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak has cost İstanbul some $730 million, mayor says: report
The coronavirus outbreak has cost Turkey’s largest city, İstanbul, more than 5 billion Turkish lira ($730 million), according to Mayor…
Regional appeals court upholds CHP İstanbul official’s prison sentence
Turkey
June 23, 2020
Regional appeals court upholds CHP İstanbul official’s prison sentence
A regional court of appeals in İstanbul has ruled to uphold the prison sentence of nine years, eight months handed…
Yet another poll shows AKP vote shrinking to 30 percent
Turkey
June 22, 2020
Yet another poll shows AKP vote shrinking to 30 percent
The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been ruling Turkey as a single-party government since 2002, would have had…
Turkish lawyers launch ‘Defense March’ against gov’t meddling
Turkey
June 21, 2020
Turkish lawyers launch ‘Defense March’ against gov’t meddling
Eighty heads of bar associations across Turkey launched a march to Ankara on Saturday against attempts by the Turkish government…
70 percent of Turks find Turkish media ‘biased, untrustworthy,’ CAP report reveals
Turkey
June 21, 2020
70 percent of Turks find Turkish media ‘biased, untrustworthy,’ CAP report reveals
Seventy percent of the people in Turkey find the Turkish media to be “biased and untrustworthy,” according to a report…
Heads of Turkey’s bar associations begin protest march to Ankara
World
June 20, 2020
Heads of Turkey’s bar associations begin protest march to Ankara
The presidents of 80 bar associations in Turkey on Friday launched a protest march from their respective provinces towards capital…
Erdoğan sending army into battle to stop generals overthrowing him – opinion
World
June 18, 2020
Erdoğan sending army into battle to stop generals overthrowing him – opinion
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using cross-border military operations to gain control over his armed forces and shore up…