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73 detained in separate operations targeting alleged Gülen followers

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 73 people including active duty officers in separate operations targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, accused by the...

French professors appeal for Turkish work permits in diplomatic row

Professors from a top İstanbul university appealed to the Turkish government Tuesday to issue their French colleagues work permits which have been held up...

Turkish authorities arrest disabled bomb disposal expert on terrorism conviction

Bilal Konakçı, a bomb disposal expert with the police who lost his hand and was blinded in an explosion, was arrested on Feb.21 after...

Family requests investigation into alleged suicide of 17-year-old boy in police custody

The family of Kadir Aktar, a 17-year-old boy who allegedly committed suicide in police custody last Friday, has requested an investigation into the circumstances...

Targeted by Erdoğan, Turkey’s LGBT community faces ‘tsunami of hate’

Murat has watched for years as LGBT people who face persecution in the Middle East have found refuge in his cosmopolitan neighborhood of İstanbul. Today,...

PEN Turkey bestows women’s rights award on academic attacked by Erdoğan

The PEN Turkey Writers' Association has granted its annual Duygu Asena Women's Rights Award to Professor Ayşe Buğra, who was recently targeted by Turkish...

Erdoğan says opposition attacking him, his family over son-in-law Albayrak

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused the country’s main opposition party of attacking him over his son-in-law Berat Albayrak, who resigned as the...

Rights advocate MP to challenge jail sentence at Constitutional Court

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has announced that he is taking a court ruling handing down a prison sentence to...

Turkey’s French teachers caught in diplomatic crosshairs

More than a dozen French professors at a top Turkish university face the threat of expulsion after being denied work permits while a diplomatic...

Dismissed Kurdish mayor given lengthy jail sentence on terrorism charges

A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of seven years, six months to a former local co-mayor in southeastern Turkey who was...

20 face detention warrants over alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 20 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a...

AKP MP: Gülen-linked women ordered to conceive to create perception of victimization

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) deputy group chairperson Özlem Zengin has accused women who have links to the faith-based Gülen movement of having...

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