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Turkey’s top court says rights of academics who signed peace petition violated

Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Friday said the rights of academics who were dismissed or prosecuted for signing a “peace petition” were violated, the T24...

Erdoğan threatens former allies seeking to establish new political parties

“Those who betray will pay a heavy price,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday, referring to former allies who have been engaged in efforts...

AKP mayor hired 853 people at Ankara Municipality during election campaign

Former Ankara Mayor Mustafa Tuna, from the ranks of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), recruited a total of 853 people, mostly for municipal subsidiaries,...

378 minors victims of sexual abuse in Şanlıurfa in first 6 months of 2019

A total of 378 minors were subjected to sexual abuse in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa in the first six months of 2019,...

Top court cancels regulation used to revoke passports of suspects’ spouses

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has abolished a controversial regulation that was used by Turkish authorities to revoke the passports of the spouses in some cases if their...

Unregistered Syrians to protest governor’s office order to leave İstanbul

Syrian refugees living in İstanbul will hold a mass protest on July 27 against a recent decision by the İstanbul Governor’s Office ordering Syrians who are...

Academic rendered from Malaysia over Gülen links sentenced without final defense

İsmet Özçelik, a Turkish academic who was forcibly brought from Malaysia to Turkey in 2017 due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has been...

Circulation of Turkish periodicals dropped by 17.6 pct in 2018

The circulation of Turkish periodical publications in 2018 decreased by 17.6 percent over the previous year, according to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the Diken news...

6 Turkish asylum seekers detained after Greek police push them back to Turkey

Six Turkish asylum seekers who crossed the Evros River into Greece were pushed back to Turkey by Greek police and subsequently detained by Turkish gendarmes in...

Turkey’s top court blocks construction of presidential palace near Lake Van

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has annulled an article in an omnibus law that allowed the construction of a presidential palace near Turkey’s largest lake, Lake Van, in...

2 Kurdish politicians detained on allegations of terrorist group membership: report

Kurdish politicians Ferhat Kut and Leyla Bozkurt along with four others were detained on Wednesday on accusations of membership in a terrorist group, the Diken news...

More than 6,000 immigrants sent to refugee camps by İstanbul police, minister says

A crackdown on unregistered refugees and migrants in Istanbul has seen more than 6,000 detentions, including those of Syrians, in the past two weeks, Turkey's Interior...

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