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Latest Boğaziçi protests due to closure of LGBTI+ student club, Erdoğan aide claims

Monday’s protests at İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University, which followed the arrest of two students over a poster depicting the Kaaba, Islam’s most sacred site,...

Erdoğan takes aim at LGBT community at party meeting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attacked the LGBT community at a party meeting on Monday, saying his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would...

ECtHR requests Turkey’s defense for imprisonment of Kurdish leader over Kobani protests

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Turkey to provide its defense for the pre-trial detention of Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş in...

Local Kurdish politician in İstanbul arrested on terrorism charges

A district co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul has been arrested on terrorism charges, according to Turkish media reports. On Jan....

Crimes committed against Atatürk’s memory see big rise under AKP rule: report

There has been a significant rise in the number of acts considered crimes against the memory of Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, under...

2 Boğaziçi students arrested over artwork depicting Kaaba with LGBT flags

Two students from the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University were arrested on Sunday on charges of inciting hatred and insulting religious values in a poster depicting...

17th century Armenian church on preservation list demolished in western Turkey

An Armenian church dating to 1603 in the western province of Kütahya that was on the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s preservation list...

Opposition vice chair accused of libeling Erdoğan with booklet on Gülen movement

An indictment accusing Gökçe Gökçen, vice chair of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), of libeling President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a result...

Erdoğan blames shopkeepers for rising food prices, warns of penalties

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds the country’s shopkeepers responsible for the country's constantly increasing food prices, warning that they may face penalties if...

ECtHR president says his Turkey visit no pretext for questioning court’s independence

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) President Róbert Ragnar Spanó has said that his September visit to Turkey, which sparked indignation among critics, is...

State-run bank agrees to pay quake aid to purge victim after outrage

Turkey’s state-run Vakıfbank, which had blocked assistance to the victim of a recent earthquake on the grounds that she was fired in a purge...

41 gendarmerie officers detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained 41 gendarmerie officers who had previously been suspended or expelled over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, accused...

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