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[UPDATE] Turkey re-arrests journalist Altan one week after release from jail

Renowned Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan was sent to jail on Tuesday evening one week after he was released from prison where he remained for...
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Turkey gives 2,327 defendants life sentences in 2016 coup-related trials

Turkish courts have thus far concluded 270 trials related to a 2016 coup attempt, handing down 3,838 defendants lengthy prison sentences, including 2,327 life sentences, according...
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Turkish police detain judge purged after 2016 failed coup

Büşra Taşkıran, a former judge who was dismissed from her job in the aftermath of a 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey and currently a journalist,...
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Turkey arrests two more Kurdish mayors

As part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the co-mayors of İpekyolu in the eastern Turkish province of Van have...
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Disabled woman loses health care benefits due to son-in-law’s Gülen links

The health care benefits of a disabled woman were cut off in 2017 because her son-in-law was a purge victim dismissed from public service by a...
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Turkey’s RTÜK signals censorship on ice cream ads, citing ‘immorality’

Murat Ellialtı, an executive at Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), said some ice cream ads exceed the “limits of public morality,” hinting at new regulations...
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AKP mayor removes multilingual sign at municipal building in SE Turkey

The mayor of the Artuklu district of the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has removed a multilingual sign at...
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Uzbek maid claimed to have committed suicide in AKP deputy’s house did not pull the trigger

Twenty-three-year-old Nadira Kadirova, an Uzbek national who was working as a maid in the house of a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy where she...
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Turkey’s top court overturns verdict based on legal entity’s terrorist group affiliation

Turkey’s top court has ruled that attending the activities of a legitimate association cannot be used as evidence of terrorism, according to the Diken news website,...
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Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison operating at twice its capacity

A parliamentary investigation committee report has revealed that 22,781 inmates are currently held at Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul despite its official capacity of 11,000,...
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Slain soldier’s mother acquitted in Erdoğan insult case

Pakize Akbaba, an elderly woman who heads a foundation of slain soldiers’ mothers and herself the mother of a slain soldier, has been acquitted of charges...
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Erdoğan aide says regrets remarks about post-coup purges being a ‘disaster’

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç, currently a member of the Presidential Higher Advisory Board, who recently described the purge of thousands of...
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