Turkish police on Thursday detained a businessman who is one of the country’s leading civil society figures, reports said, raising fresh alarm over freedom of expression under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Osman Kavala was detained at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport after flying in from the southern city of Gaziantep, the Dogan ...
A blast hit the southern Turkish city of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast Tuesday as a police vehicle passed by, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The private Dogan news agency said there were an unspecified number of casualties caused by the explosion, which caused panic in the city center.
