İstanbul’s July 15 Martyrs Bridge, colloquially known as the Bosphorus Bridge or the First Bridge, will be closed to traffic between 1 am and 5 am from Aug 3 to 5, the İstanbul Governor’s Office ...

This interview, conducted in Dec 2025 amid ongoing protests in Iran, was first published in Farsi in May on the Iran-based website Neemaad. We spoke with Judith Butler—one of the world’s most influential thinkers, known ...

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has added Kurdish-language support to its ALO 153 Solution Center, which handles residents’ requests and complaints. The service will be available in Kurmanji, the Kurdish dialect spoken by most Kurds in ...

Alexey Rûyan Aydın, an academic, lawyer, author and LGBTI+ rights advocate, has died at the age of 56. Aydın, a trans man, dedicated his academic and legal career to advancing LGBTI+ rights. After graduating from ...

Columnist and television pundit Cem Küçük was detained today in an investigation on allegations of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and “blackmailing,” the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced. The office did not disclose the specific ...

Columnist and television pundit Cem Küçük was detained today in an investigation on allegations of “publicly disseminating misleading information” and “blackmailing,” the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced. The office did not disclose the specific ...

A court in Van has rejected a request for a retrial by Emrah Bayram, who was tried as an adult after authorities changed his age following his detention in 2009, when he was a minor, ...

A court in Van has rejected a request for a retrial by Emrah Bayram, who was tried as an adult after authorities changed his age following his detention in 2009, when he was a minor, ...

• Local teachers at the school staged a four-month strike over a massive pay gap with their Italian colleagues • After the strike ended in victory for the teachers, the school administration began dismissing participants ...

The poverty threshold for a family of four rose to 120,325 liras in July, more than four times the minimum wage in Turkey, according to the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions’ (Türk-İş) monthly report (1 ...