Amedspor secured promotion to Turkey’s top-tier football competition Süper Lig following the final matches of the 1. Lig today. The team from the Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakır finished the season in second place after a ...

We got married there, in the exact same place I now see on the screen. It was a happy occasion, my father-in-law who was quite ill put on a brave and noble display. My wife’s ...

Early in the morning, before the tour groups gather beneath the tower and the café tables crowd the streets, a vision of old Galata emerges. The cobblestoned streets lie empty and silent, lined by ghostly ...

İstanbul authorities closed roads and transit links across central districts on the city’s European side on May Day as police enforced a ban on gatherings in and around Taksim Square, detaining hundreds of people who ...

İstanbul authorities closed roads and transit links across central districts on the city’s European side on May Day as police enforced a ban on gatherings in and around Taksim Square, detaining hundreds of people who ...

Several roads and public transportation hubs in İstanbul and Ankara will be closed or restricted on Labor Day, with measures starting at 6 am local time (GMT+3) on May 1. In İstanbul, the governor’s office ...

Turkey ranked 163rd out of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index prepared by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), falling from 159th place last year. The ranking made Turkey the 18th worst country in ...

The dismissed co-mayor of the Kurdish-populated eastern province of Hakkari (Colemêrg), Mehmet Sıddık Akış, has been sentenced to 19 years and 6 months in prison for “managing a terrorist organization” after a retrial. The case ...

Turkey’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by 0.3 percentage points to 8.1% in March compared to the previous month, according to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data. The number of unemployed people aged 15 and over ...

Assoc. Prof. Gül Köksal, who was removed from her post at Kocaeli University for signing the Academics for Peace declaration calling for an end to the urban conflict in the country’s Kurdish-populated regions in 2016, ...