With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify …
Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention
Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets …
Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention
Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets …
‘Then, the phone rang’: BBC’s Mark Lowen on being deported from Turkey
At 9.30pm, I was moved to the foreigners’ custody unit of the Istanbul police. There, the atmosphere hardened from a succession of chain-smoking officers, with whom I had to negotiate in my broken …
Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism, insult charges
Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey’s Ankara Chief Public …
Why Turkey’s Pro-Democracy Protests Probably Won’t Succeed
President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn of lira intervention
Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets …
Tufts student from Turkey threated with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown
U.S. government lawyers said Thursday that 30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, had been moved out of Massachusetts by the time her lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to be kept in the state.
Turkey economy faces confidence crisis after Imamoglu arrest
After Turkey’s President Erdogan arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, stocks and the national currency have plummeted. Erdogan is now desperately trying to calm the market turmoil.
Police use force to break up protests at a university in Turkey’s capital
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital early Thursday, the latest clash in the country’s biggest anti-government protests in over a decade.