Manisa MP Özgür Özel is the new leader of Turkiye’s main opposition Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP). The 49-year-old former pharmacist beat Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in a leadership contest, bringing the incumbent’s 13-year term as CHP Leader to a close. The result means CHP goes...
Sunday, 29 October 2023 marked exactly one hundred years since the Republic of Türkiye was proclaimed. The centenary saw celebrations not only across Türkiye, but also by Turks living all around the world. This momentous anniversary is the perfect opportunity to reflect on what has been the Republi...
A Turkish radio DJ told his sobbing girlfriend “Be quiet my love” before she was beaten unconscious by a gang of kidnappers, a court heard. The body of DJ Koray Alpergin, 43, was discovered near the Oakwood Hill Industrial Estate in Loughton, Essex, last 15 October. Mr Alpergin, from North Cyprus,...
The parliamentary group leader of Turkiye’s main opposition, the Turkish People’s Party (CHP), Özgür Özel, has announced his candidacy for the party leadership at a press conference on Friday. Özel criticised CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and his team for failing to take “political responsibility f...
Eyebrows were raised around the world as news of the verdicts for Faruk Fatih Özer, a cryptocurrency businessman, and his two siblings, Serap Özer and brother Güven Özer, circulated. The trio were sentenced to a staggering 11,196 years each after being found guilty of aggravated fraud, leading a cr...
Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek took to social media to share the good news that over 7 million tourists entered Turkiye last month, making it the best July on record for foreign visitors. The significant increase in visitor numbers isn’t just good news for Turkiye’s tourism sector, it also has an i...
A wildfire that broke out in the northwest of Turkiye on Tuesday afternoon, 22 August, has led to at least 1,200 people from nine villages and a university campus being evacuated as a precaution. Strong winds have fanned the fires overnight, causing them to spread more rapidly across Çanakkale Prov...
A female naval officer has become the most senior ranked woman in Turkish naval history after being promoted to Rear Admiral. Gökçen Fırat’s elevation to the third highest naval rank makes her one of the most senior military figures in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Rear Admiral sits just below Ad...
Local residents, environmentalists, and opposition politicians have clashed with police in a forest in southwest Turkiye after they tried to prevent a company from cutting down thousands of trees to make way for a new coal mine. Dozens of people have been arrested and injured in the process. The is...
Last month, Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made history when he appointed Hafize Gaye Erkan as the governor of the Central Bank of Turkiye – the first ever woman to head the 93-year-old financial institution. Erkan enters the financial fray in her motherland armed with an impressive biogr...
