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Journalist given 18-month suspended jail sentence due to Afrin criticism
Turkey
March 27, 2019
Journalist given 18-month suspended jail sentence due to Afrin criticism
Journalist İshak Karakaş has been handed down a jail sentence of 18 months, 22 days on charges of disseminating terrorist…
Turkey to continue withholding lira liquidity overseas at least until Sunday’s elections: report
Business
March 27, 2019
Turkey to continue withholding lira liquidity overseas at least until Sunday’s elections: report
Turkey will continue directing its banks to withhold lira liquidity from a key overseas market at least until after Sunday’s…
Turkish Local Elections in the Shade of Endangered Media Trust and Economic Credibility
Turkey
March 27, 2019
Turkish Local Elections in the Shade of Endangered Media Trust and Economic Credibility
Turkey is in a continuous election race as the local elections to be held on 31 March will be the…
Unemployed Turkish man sets himself alight, saying his children are hungry
Turkey
March 27, 2019
Unemployed Turkish man sets himself alight, saying his children are hungry
An unemployed Turkish man set himself on fire in front of a town hall in the southeastern Gaziantep province, where…
Turkish FM alleges some Kurdish opposition party candidates are terrorists
Turkey
March 25, 2019
Turkish FM alleges some Kurdish opposition party candidates are terrorists
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Sunday said some of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and İYİ (Good) Party’s city…
Provocative flyers falsely appearing to be from HDP distributed in Antalya
Turkey
March 25, 2019
Provocative flyers falsely appearing to be from HDP distributed in Antalya
As Turkey enters its last week before local elections on March 31, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has revealed that…
Erdoğan says Hagia Sophia could be converted from museum into a mosque
Turkey
March 25, 2019
Erdoğan says Hagia Sophia could be converted from museum into a mosque
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has changed his stance on the historic Hagia Sophia in İstanbul, which currently serves as…
Erdoğan vows to block 300 opposition candidates from office if they win
Turkey
March 25, 2019
Erdoğan vows to block 300 opposition candidates from office if they win
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday linked more than 300 opposition candidates in Turkey’s March 31 local elections to “terrorist…
’99 percent of this town is Muslim. How could anybody vote for opposition?’: Turkey’s AKP official
Turkey
March 24, 2019
’99 percent of this town is Muslim. How could anybody vote for opposition?’: Turkey’s AKP official
“Ninety-nine percent of this town is Muslim. How could anybody vote for the [Republican People’s Party] CHP?” asked İbrahim Sayın,…
Erdoğan calls some EU politicians ‘enemies of Islam’
World
March 23, 2019
Erdoğan calls some EU politicians ‘enemies of Islam’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused EU politicians Kati Piri, Federica Mogherini and Johannes Hahn of being enemies of…