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Turkey to open ‘emergency courts’ at airports for resolution of urgent travel issues

Turkey’s Justice Ministry is working on establishing “emergency courts,” at airports where judges and prosecutors would be present to offer quick solutions to urgent matters, according...

Turkey’s Kurdish party elects co-chairs amid gov’t crackdown targeting members

Turkey's Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday announced the election of two new co-chairs at its 4th Congress in Ankara amid the Turkish government's...

Turkish court arrests pilot in Pegasus Airlines crash at İstanbul airport

A Turkish court on Monday ordered the arrest of the pilot of a plane that crashed at an İstanbul airport, killing three passengers, on charges of...

Top court says no rights violation in case of jailed woman given cancer drugs

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there was no violation of rights in the case of Sevgi Sezer, who has been jailed since February 2018, is...

Purged Turkish colonel sent to Libya, killed in bombing, buried secretly: report

A colonel from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) who was forced to retire from service as part of a government-led purge was recalled to serve in...

At least 9 killed in Turkey following quake in neighboring Iran

At least nine people were killed and 37 injured in the eastern Turkish province of Van after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck western Iran on Sunday...

8 Turkish lawyers demanding a fair trial continue hunger strike in prison

Eight lawyers, who were all members of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), are on a hunger strike in prison, demanding a fair trial,...

Report exposes 500-member online army in Turkey to discredit opposition

The Computational Propaganda Project report, drafted by the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, has revealed that there is a 500-strong online army in Turkey that works...

Another Turkish soldier killed by Syrian regime forces in Idlib

A 25-year-old Turkish soldier has been killed in a bomb attack carried out by Syrian government forces in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, according to...

Latest figures show 26,862 people in jail over Gülen links: ministry

According to the latest figures, 26,862 people are in jail due to links to the Gülen movement, which is accused of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt...

Court lifts travel ban on mother of cancer patient who will undergo treatment abroad

The Mersin 7th High Criminal Court on Friday ruled to lift a travel ban on Zekiye Ataç, the mother of an 8-year-old cancer patient who will...

Interior ministry lifts restrictions on some 11,000 more Turkish passports

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that it has lifted restrictions on 11,027 passports that were imposed during a two-year-long state of emergency declared immediately after a...

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