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Justice Ministry working to reinstate passports of some 150,000 purge victims

Turkey’s Justice Ministry is working on a regulation to reinstate the passports of 150,000 public servants whose travel documents were cancelled after they were purged from their...

Kurdish woman fined for failing to respond to TurkStat survey in Turkish

A Kurdish woman in the eastern Turkish province of Batman has been fined TL 1,055 for failing to answer questions in a public survey...

Top court rules rights violation in case of former prosecutor who was denied to attend brother’s funeral

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there was a violation of rights in the case of a former prosecutor who was denied the opportunity...

Veteran journalist put in prison after losing appeal of terrorist propaganda verdict

Journalist Hüseyin Aykol was put in prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court upheld a three-year, nine-month prison sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda. Aykol was one...

Turkey says it killed nearly 3,800 PKK terrorists over 2 years: report

Close to 3,800 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed in some 230,000 counterterrorism operations conducted by Turkey’s security forces in the last two-and-a-half years, according...

Turkish libraries held some 69.3 mln volumes in 2018: statistical authority

Libraries across Turkey held nearly 69.3 million books as of the end of 2018, the country's statistical authority reported on Thursday, according to the state-run Anadolu...

Top court rules rights violation in governor’s interference in Armenian patriarchal election

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there was a violation of the freedom of religion in the interference by the İstanbul Governor’s Office in the Armenian...

Critical journalist says Erdoğan ordered her dismissal from CNN Türk

Nevşin Mengü , a journalist critical of the government who used to work for Turkish broadcaster CNN Türk, has said she was fired from the TV...

15-year-old Kurdish girl released pending trial after 12-day detention

A 15-year-old Kurdish girl who was taken into police custody along with other family members was released 12 days later, the gazetekarınca news website reported on...

Deputy who went on hunger strike takes parliamentary oath a year late

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Güven, who had been on a hunger strike for nearly 200 days, took the parliamentary oath of office on Wednesday,...

Journalist convicted of Gülen links, released pending appeal

The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced veteran journalist Mehmet Gündem to six years, 10 months, 15 days on charges of membership in the...

Turkey’s Erdoğan accuses Babacan of abandoning Islamist cause with new party plans: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said membership in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was based on the principle of staying loyal to the...

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