T24 columnist and journalist Tolga Şardan was arrested after being detained from his home in Ankara on November 1 as part of an investigation launched over his article on corruption allegations in the judiciary. The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against Şardan for his article titled “What’s in the report submitted by
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (CBRT) raised policy interest rate by 500 basis points to 35 percent. The Monetary Policy Committee, which convened under the leadership of CBRT Governor Hafize Erkan on October 26, decided to raise the policy rate, the one-week repo auction interest rate, from
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on October 25 that he regards the Palestinian Hamas organization “not as a terrorist organization, but as a liberation group”. Devoting almost the entire parliamentary group speach to Gaza, Erdoğan said: “You cannot find any other country that bombs cities day and night with its warplanes, that sets buildings and
The Constitutional Court (AYM) ruled that the rights of Can Atalay, who was elected as Turkish Labor Party (TİP) Hatay lawmaker in May elections, were violated since he was not released from the prison he has been kept with the approval of his prison sentence in Gezi Park Protests case. Ruling on Atalay’s individual application
It is reported that Türkiye asked Hamas political representatives to leave the country on October 7, the day they launched an attack on Israel. Sources who asked not to be named confirmed YetkinReport the report by journalist Fehim Taştekin in Al Monitor, despite another Turkish source told Times of Israel that the report was “untrue”.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed Sweden’s NATO accession protocol and referred it to the Turkish Grand National Assembly on October 23. “The Protocol on Sweden’s Accession to NATO was signed by our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 23, 2023 and sent to the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye,” the Presidential Directorate of Communication
As the repercussions of the air strike on Al Ehli Baptist hospital in Gaza which claimed more than 400 lives continue, Türkiye declared 3 days of national mourning for Palestinians. “It has been deemed appropriate to declare national mourning for three days in order to share the pain of the Palestinian people due to the
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on October 17 that 500 people were killed and hundreds wounded in the Al Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which was hit by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Palestinian Deputy Health Minister Yousef Er-Rish made a statement in front of the dead bodies and ruins after the attack, saying that after
President Tayyip Erdoğan said “Türkiye is ready for mediation” after he spoke over the phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to demand an “immediate halt to attacks on civilians.” “I would like to emphasize that Türkiye is ready for any kind of mediation, including prisoner exchange if the parties request
Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that the Turkish Armed Forces conducted airstrikes against 30 targets in northern Syria as of 23:00 local time on October 5. “In order to eliminate terrorist attacks against our people and security forces from Northern Syria by neutralizing PKK/YPG and other terrorist elements and to ensure our border security;