ISTANBUL—Turkey's ruling party, facing the threat of fresh antigovernment demonstrations, is boosting its presence in a sphere long dominated by the opposition: social media. The Justice and ...

The 45-day deadline to form a coalition government is ending without any result in Turkey, which will now allow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to use his power to call for a new election.

Many Turkish actors are under pressure from the government and ... including in Turkey," the union told DW in a statement. "It often manifests itself in the form of censorship.

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s government has been at pains to prop up the value of the lira, creating incentives to prevent people from exchanging the currency and pushing the ...

Turkey is a parliamentary democracy, according to its constitution. In practice, the government is classified as a “hybrid regime” by the Economist Intelligence Unit, an “electoral autocracy” by the ...

Plain consumers were mad at the attempt to put government monopolies ... By week’s end Turkey’s President, General Cemal Gursel, came to Inonu and asked him to form a new Cabinet; conceivably ...

Provincial authorities regularly ban protests and assemblies of constituencies critical of the government. For example, they banned a women’s rights rally in Istanbul on March 8. Turkey’s ...

Official figures show Turkey's birthrate has fallen from 2.38 children per woman in 2001 to 1.48 in 2025 lower than in France, Britain or the United States in what Erdogan, a 71-year-old pious Muslim ...