Pirates kidnapped 10 sailors in the Paksoy-1 ship which was heading to the Abidjan Port in the Ivory Coast.

The amount of agricultural poisons used in Turkey increased to 59 thousand tons since 2009. The southern province of Antalya saw the highest increase.

The fourth session of the case where Deniz Yücel, the former Turkey representative of the Die Welt newspaper, is on trial was held at the İstanbul 32th Heavy Penal Court today (July 16).

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the employment figures for April. Accordingly, the unemployment rate rose by 3.4 percent on a yearly basis.

The EU has delayed the announcement of the sanctions for several hours, waiting for the commemoration events for the 2016 coup attempt to end. Turkey's Foreign Ministry has condemned the sanctions.

Ömer Fethi Gürer from the main opposition CHP directed a parliamentary question at Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk, the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Services but said that he was not able to receive a proper answer.

An investigation has been launched against translator Metin Cihan, who has been raising concerns on social media over the suspicious death of 11-year-old Rabia Naz Vatan.

Two siblings, aged four and eight, have died in an explosion while they were pasturing animals in the southeastern province.

Amid a long-standing spat with the US, Turkey has finally received the first batch of the equipment of the S-400 air defense systems from Russia. Here is what you need to know about it.

CHP MP Ali Mahir Başarır has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the administrative fine imposed by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) on a woman who could not participate in its survey as she does not know Turkish.

CHP Vice Chair Adıgüzel has indicated that there are currently 114 penal institutions under construction in Turkey, according to the Presidency Communication Center. The country has the second highest rate of incarceration in the OECD.

Main opposition CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a member of the Parliamentary Commission to Investigate July 15 Coup Attempt, has recounted how the works and activities of the commission have been prevented.

People jumped into seas, lakes and rivers in more than a dozen cities all around the world except Hasankeyf, where the governor banned going into the water.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken to the Washington Post about possible sanctions against Turkey over S-400s: “The law requires that there be sanctions and I’m confident that President Trump will comply with the law.”

The US House of Representatives has adopted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would end the 32-year arms embargo on Southern Cyprus.

In protest against the construction of a state dormitory on poplar woods at their campus, students of the Middle East Technical University (METU) and academics have marched towards Kavaklık, the poplar woods.

The Peoples' United Revenge Militia (HBİM) has announced that it burned the forests in an "act of sabotage." HDP MP Ahmet Şık has reacted, "Attacking trees, water, nature is also hostility towards the people."

After it has been revealed that the word “Kurdistan” was censored in the Turkish translation of Paulo Coelho’s book Eleven Minutes, the Can Publishing House has announced that the book will be pulled off the shelves.

The monument near the Armenian border was demolished in 2011 after Erdoğan called it a "freak". Sculptor Aksoy told bianet that he will rebuild the monument in the same place.

Elected to the Supreme Board of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), media ombudsperson Faruk Bildirici said, “I have always defended freedom of press, expression and thought. I will, naturally, continue my efforts in that direction."