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Jailed Kurdish politician says health problems remain despite hospital visit

Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who has been in jail since November 2016, has said problems with his health remain...

Ruling AKP expels ex-deputy over ‘We don’t want Syrians’ tweet

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has terminated the membership of a former deputy who opposes granting citizenship to Syrian refugees and posted “We don’t...

Erdoğan accuses former allies of fraud over Halkbank in Şehir University saga: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday accused allies-turned-rivals of defrauding the state-owned Halkbank in a controversy over the İstanbul Şehir University, Bloomberg reported. Erdoğan leveled...

Mayor İmamoğlu denies agreement to cooperate on Canal İstanbul

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has denied a claim by Transportation Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan that his municipality is in agreement with the government for construction of the...

İstanbul police disperse Turkish women’s ‘Las Tesis’ gathering

Police dispersed a protest in İstanbul during which women sang their rendition of the feminist protest song "A rapist in your path," which has...

2 soldiers killed, 7 injured while defusing IED in southeastern Turkey: report

At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on Monday while attempting to defuse an improvised explosive device (IED), The Associated Press reported,...

1,606 killed in work-related accidents in first 11 months of 2019

At least 1,606 people died in work-related accidents in Turkey in the first 11 months of 2019, according to a report from Turkey’s Health and Safety...

Number of inmates in Turkish prisons virtually doubled in last 5 years: report

The number of people in prison per 100,000 of the Turkish population increased from 188 in December 2013 to 323 in December 2018, the Turkish Statistical...

Turkey detains 5 more Kurdish co-mayors from HDP

As part of an expanding crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), five HDP district co-mayors have been detained in the eastern...

Turkish university student commits suicide by ingesting cyanide

A 21-year old university student committed suicide in the northwestern province of Sakarya by taking a dose of cyanide shortly after Turkish authorities banned the public...

Erdoğan ally withdraws amnesty bill from consideration in parliament

Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has decided to withdraw a bill granting amnesty to nearly 160,000...

Ankara lawyers subjected to intimidation, threats in prison meeting with purge victim

Lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association say they were intimidated by management and threatened by guards at Sincan Prison, where they went to meet with four...

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