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Top government official accused US-based company of blocking condolence posts on killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Turkey on Friday blocked access to the Instagram social media network, the national communications authority said without explanation, following censorship accusations against the US company by a high-ranking Turkish official.

Turkish police said they have arrested 78 people accused of creating fear and panic by "sharing provocative posts" about last week's earthquake on social media, adding 20 of them were being held in pre-trial detention.

UNHCR says circumstances of ‘shocking’ discovery unclear amid rising tension between two countries

UN calls for a full investigation, as Greek authorities brand Turkey’s behaviour a ‘shame to civilisation’

When President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law suddenly quit as finance minister in late 2020, four staff in Turkey's leading newsrooms said they received a clear direction from their managers: don't report this until the government says so.

A top aide to Turkey's president said on Friday the international community cannot end the war in Ukraine by ignoring Moscow, as Tayyip Erdogan headed to Russia to meet his counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO last month amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but had the move blocked by Turkey, in a move that shocked members of the alliance

The German and French ambassadors to Ankara were summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry to protest events organized by Kurdish militants in those countries, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Speaking to state-run Anadolu news agency, Cavusoglu said the ambassadors were told of Turkey's discomfort with the events organized…