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In this April 11, 2008 file photo, paramilitary police offices escort Alaattin Cakici before a trial in Istanbul. A notorious mafia boss has been set free on Thursday, April 16, 2020 as Turkish prisons continue releasing thousands of inmates to ease overcrowding in prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic but the new penal legislation is keeping government critics behind bars due to Turkey’s sweeping terror laws. (AP Photo, File)

State authority near obsolete in Turkey as mobsters step in ‘to protect the nation’ - Hamit Bozarslan

Assad

Turkey unlikely to follow Arab nations in shifting gears over Syria, analyst says

Turkey coronavirus

Women wearing masks to help protect against the spread of coronavirus, walk hours before a two-day weekend curfew, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey reported more than 11, 394 new coronavirus cases on Friday

Istanbul Convention

istanbul convention

Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention frightens activists

Jews

Turkey's main Jewish website hacked by anti-Semites

Turkey has far to go to improve trade with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE

Andrew Rosenbaum

Turkish Trends

Heyday of Turkey-Iran relations coming to an end – expert

Nicholas Morgan

Turkish foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia in bid to normalise troubled relationship

Nicholas Morgan

Maaz

Pressing need to integrate Turkey's Syrian refugees

Maaz İbrahimoğlu

Asım Akansoy

Collapse of the Geneva summit on Cyprus

Yavuz Baydar

An honourable profession in wreckage: how Erdoğan destroyed Turkey’s media - long read

Rojava

U.S. commission on religious freedom calls for recognition of Rojava

Religious Freedom

orthodox

Turkey rejects US report on religious freedom

Tourism video shows mask with "Enjoy, I'm vaccinated."

Tourism video makes Turks feel slighted

Boğaziçi protests

boğaziçi

Boğaziçi academics released ‘damage assessment report’

Çakıcı

Turkish mafia boss lends support to Erdoğan

This combination of pictures created on April 1, 2018 shows a file photo taken on November 19, 2017 of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) attending the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem and a file photo taken on December 15, 2017 of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the inauguration ceremony of Turkey's first automated urban metro line on the Asian side of Istanbul. / AFP PHOTO / RONEN ZVULUN AND OZAN KOSE

Turkey-Israel trade increases, as relations worsen -- Report

Kurdish question

A supporter of Devlet Bahceli, Leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) gestures a sign of the far-right Turkish political movement, the Grey Wolves, during a rally in Ankara, on June 23, 2018. AFP PHOTO / STR

A Kurdish family attacked by racists in Turkey - report

Turkey-Covid-19

Erdoğan

Erdoğan asked financially troubled citizens’ blessing over COVID-19 measures

Security camera footage from the HDP headquarters in Ankara (via twitter)

HDP blames Interior Minister Soylu for attack on its headquarters

A Ukranian tourist Alena has a meal near the Hagia Sophia Mosque at Sultanahmet in Istanbul on May 9, 2021, during a new lockdown aimed at fighting a surging third wave of Covid-19 infections. - Turkey welcomes foreign tourists while locking down locals from April 29 to May 17. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

One rule for locals and another for everyone else as Turkey seeks to lure back tourists – the Economist

Albayrak

Former Turkish Finance Minister Albayrak responsible for huge losses at public banks

Zülfikar Doğan

Turkey foreign policy

Protesters chant slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a protest against Israel in front of the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, late on May 10, 2021. - Israel launched deadly air strikes on Gaza on May 10 in response to a barrage of rockets fired by Hamas and other Palestinian militants, amid spiralling violence sparked by unrest at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP)

Can Erdoğan's Turkey be the leader of the global ummah? - Erdi Öztürk

Turkish Currents

the central bank building in Ankara

U.S. inflation and Turkey's monetary policy

People's Alliance

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Devlet Bahceli, leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), greet their supporters during a rally for the upcoming local elections, in Ankara, Turkey, March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Poll shows falling support for Erdoğan’s coalition

beyrut

Turkish firm cuts off power to Lebanon citing unpaid debt

People attend Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, on May 13, 2021, during a lockdown due to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Less testing behind Turkey’s reduction in COVID-19 cases – top medical body

lira

Turkish lira may face further losses as record low nears

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 22, 2021. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Al-Aqsa Imam says Erdoğan’s pro-Palestinian speeches ‘precious’

In this Dec. 15, 2017, file courtroom sketch, Mehmet Hakkan Atilla, right, testifies in his trial in New York. Atilla, a Halkbank official, was convicted in 2018 of conspiracies to violate U.S. sanctions law, defraud the U.S. and commit money laundering and bank fraud. Halkbank, a major Turkish bank, was criminally charged in an indictment (Elizabeth Williams via AP, File )

U.S. Commerce Department targets former Turkish banker for evading Iran sanctions - Aykan Erdemir

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a press conference following his meeting with Greek Foreign Minister, in Ankara on April 15, 2021. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Turkish foreign minister reportedly planning Athens trip this month

A Ukranian tourist Alena poses for a picture near the Hagia Sophia Mosque at Sultanahmet in Istanbul on May 9, 2021, during a new lockdown aimed at fighting a surging third wave of Covid-19 infections. - Turkey welcomes foreign tourists while locking down locals from April 29 to May 17. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

Turks furious over video boasting of 'vaccinated staff' for tourists

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a welcoming ceremony at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool.

British lawmakers condemn Turkey’s human rights record

Sedat Peker

Turkish crime boss says interior minister provided him protection

lockdown

Turkish economy may contract in second quarter after lockdown

Yardimeli gaza turkey israel

Israel bombs Turkish charity office in Gaza

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