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12 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 17, 2026.
Prosecutors cite bribery, tender-rigging and money-laundering claims against the chairman. Opposition leader Ozgur Ozel calls it something only dictators do.
Two burials at the 11,000-year-old Turkish site show the same damage as loose bone fragments found in its monumental buildings, suggesting erosion carried them downhill rather than ritual alone.
Prosecutors say 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses are under investigation across 15 provinces. Dozens of websites were blocked, and the EU's Turkey rapporteur called it 'a shocking escalation.'
The law creates the legal machinery to dissolve the Kurdistan Workers' Party after four decades of war, with about 3,500 detainees expected out in a first phase. Abdullah Ocalan is excluded, and nothing takes effect until Turkey verifies full disarmament.
The press corps and part of the staff flew home on a decoy Air Force One with the cabin shades ordered shut. By Monday night officials were furious the ruse had leaked.
The Mecca Joint Deterrence Agreement binds NATO's second-largest military, the world's top oil exporter and the only Muslim state with nuclear weapons — after nearly a year of quiet negotiation.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds an oil power, a nuclear-armed state and NATO's second-largest military — signed as the Iran war reshapes the region.
Standing alongside President Erdogan in Ankara, Trump declared it was 'time' to drop the 2020 penalties imposed over Turkey's purchase of Russian air defenses — and floated returning Ankara to the F-35 stealth-fighter program.
WatchThe president touched down in Ankara as allies openly feuded over America's strikes on Iran and a new 5% defense-spending demand, with Russia's overnight assault on Kyiv hanging over the talks.
Despite cash grants and subsidized loans from Erdogan's government, Turkish couples are having fewer children amid economic pressures.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government offers grants and subsidized loans to boost Turkey's declining birthrate, but few parents are responding to the call.
Three armed assailants opened fire on Turkish police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul's Besiktas district in what Turkey and Israel have both declared a terror attack, with one gunman killed and two captured.