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Boğaziçi University’s Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute recorded 117 small earthquakes south of İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands over 55 hours, the institute said Thursday. The tremors took place within a 20-kilometer area between 6 a.m. on August 18 and 1 p.m. on August 20 and ranged in magnitude from 0.7 to 3.1. Kandilli called the […] The post Turkish observatory records 117…
Turkey on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to provoke a confrontation with Ankara for political gain after he warned that Israel would not tolerate a Turkish military presence extending farther south in Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Burhanettin Duran, the Turkish presidency’s communications director, said Netanyahu was using hostility […]…
Russia wants energy concessions from Turkey before it approves the resale of Ankara’s S-400 air defense systems, the Cumhuriyet daily reported Thursday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the talks. Turkey reportedly wants to sell the Russian systems to a Gulf state to help clear the way for its return to the US-led F-35 fighter jet program, but no clear progress has been seen since talks…
Turkish Education Minister Yusuf Tekin said on Wednesday that an investigation into alleged discrimination against a transgender teacher at a private school in İstanbul was still ongoing. Tekin was responding to questions from Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) lawmaker Özgül Saki about the case of Zoe Lila, an English teacher who said the […] The post Turkish minister says probe…
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would lose a presidential runoff to Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş, jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu or the main opposition New Party leader Özgür Özel, a survey released Thursday found. According to the poll by Gündemar Research, Yavaş drew 60.17 percent against 39.83 percent for Erdoğan, giving him a lead of 20.34 […] The post Erdoğan trails 3 rivals in Turkish…
Turkey’s population increased by 228,434 in the first half of 2026, reaching 86.3 million as of July 1, according to data released Thursday by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). The population rose from 86,092,168 at the end of 2025 to 86,320,602, TurkStat’s periodic population statistics showed. Men slightly outnumbered women, accounting for 50.01 percent of […] The post Turkey’s…
Turkey’s gross external debt rose 3.5 percent from the prior quarter to $539 billion at the end of June, data from the Turkish Central Bank showed. The debt stood at $518.5 billion at the end of March. The total covers money owed abroad by the public sector, the central bank and private companies and banks. […] The post Turkey’s gross external debt rises to $539 billion appeared first on Turkish…
Adem Yavuz Arslan* Turkey’s democratic decline over the past decade is usually recounted through a familiar list: journalists jailed, media outlets shut down, judges removed, opposition politicians prosecuted, civil servants dismissed by emergency decree and executive power increasingly concentrated in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. All of this matters. But it tells only […] The post…
German police shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old Turkish citizen carrying an airsoft pistol in Munich on Tuesday, according to German media reports. The boy, identified as Kurdish by his family and the Kurdish Center in Munich, was hospitalized in stable condition. His family disputes the police account of what happened before the shooting. Police […] The post German police seriously wound…
A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) said on Thursday that jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan would join an official panel overseeing the group’s laying down of arms. Pervin Buldan, a member of the DEM Party team that holds talks with Öcalan, made the remarks at a […] The post Öcalan to join official panel overseeing…
