After the mucilage in 2021, the number, quantity and biomass of species such as sharks and rays in the Marmara Sea increased by nearly 100%.

Responding to BDS Turkey's request, Kadıköy Municipality Council canceled the “sister city” protocol with the Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

Protestants, who have more than 170 churches or communities in Turkey, mostly in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, have been facing problems in Turkey since 2019. Their visa requests have been denied, their residence permits revoked and deportations have been imposed.

“The situation depends on the international political developments as well as the regional ones," said Sarkis Kassargian, a journalist in Damascus. "But it is highly likely that they will postpone the elections again in August."

Activists of the initiative “Starving until you’re honest” want to pressure German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to a public statement about climate change based on science. Medical staff have renounced responsibility more than a week ago. Now, they want to give Olaf Scholz one more week to meet their demands.

According to the latest report of the Council of Europe, Turkey continues to lead Europe in prison population with a total of 348,265 prisoners and 405 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.

Locals gathered in the Hatay province to protest residential areas being designated as “reserve zones”, that would grant the state and its contractors exclusive rights to expropriate and develop those places.

Following the arrest and replacement of their co-mayor in Hakkari, DEM Party called for an early election.

More than 1,000 imams in Germany are deployed and paid by the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs, Diyanet. Germany wants to gradually replace them with German-trained clerics, but it will be a long process.

Men perpetrated violence against at least 56 women, abused 29 minors, and killed five children.

Journalist Kazım Kızıl, who was on the scene covering the fire in Gülderen, was subjected to aggressive threats from company employees.

Nil Ormanlı from the Association for Derivation Economy and Change.org Climate Project evaluated June 5 World Environment Day in the context of ecological destruction and struggles in Turkey.

This time, instead of the usual redaction of some sentences, entire sections of the letter were completely covered up and only sent as a photocopy.

In a major narcotics operation, Turkish authorities arrested nine individuals, including a Colombian cartel member, and seized 373 kilograms of cocaine in Istanbul and Bursa.

The last of the young protesters who were arrested while demonstrating against SOCAR's continued fuel shipments to Israel have finally been released from custody by the court.

Mehmet Sıddık Akış, the co-mayor of the Hakkari province and member of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, was arrested by security forces and replaced by a government-appointed trustee.

Azim Deniz, the owner of Deniz Postası newspaper and Anadolu TV, was wounded in an armed attack in front of his house on February 5.

DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan was banned from boarding a flight at Istanbul Airport to attend the meeting of the Social Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Paris. The MP for the province of Şırnak, whose ban on traveling abroad was lifted in December 2023, was presented a “restriction” decision dated 2020.

On March 31, members of the Thousand Youths for Palestine organized a protest in front of the Istanbul headquarters of the Azeri state oil giant SOCAR for its complicity in the ongoing war in Gaza. Demonstrators threw red paint on the walls and entered the building breaking down the doors.

Last night, the Hakkari Municipality in southeastern Turkey was raided by police, leading to the detention of co-mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış and the subsequent appointment of a government-appointed trustee.