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İstanbul police detain 25 cab drivers for allegedly swindling tourists

Police in İstanbul detained 25 taxi drivers for allegedly swindling tourists, the Diken news website reported on Tuesday. The detainees were referred to court on charges of aggravated...

Oil tanker explosion in İzmir kills Italian citizen, injures 16 others: report

An explosion on an oil tanker killed one Italian citizen and injured 16 others in Turkey's western province of İzmir, the Hürriyet Daily News reported, citing...

Turkish government ends scholarships of students detained at LGBTI parade

Turkey’s Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK) has cut scholarships and the loans of students who were detained on May 10 during an LGBTI pride march in...

Turkey had censored more than 245,000 websites, URLs as of end-2018: report

As of the end of 2018, Turkish authorities had banned access to a total of 245,825 websites and URLs, with only 11,879 of them censored by...

Active duty soldiers among 152 detentions ordered in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 152 suspects, including active duty military members, as part of a massive post-coup crackdown targeting faith-based Gülen movement...

Former coup plot judge given 13 years in prison over Gülen links

Ömer Diken, a former judge who was on the panel hearing the 2003 Sledgehammer (Balyoz) coup plot trial, has been handed down a prison sentence of...

New İstanbul mayor attracts crowds as he takes city tram to work

In a move unusual for a mayor of İstanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of Turkey’s most populous city, on Monday took a tram in...

City council in Antalya reverses vote, allows Syrian refugees access to public beaches

The municipal council of the Gazipaşa Municipality in the popular Turkish tourist resort of Antalya has voted to continue to allow Syrian refugees access to public beaches,...

More executives resign at İstanbul Municipality after arrival of new mayor

Kasım Kutlu, the director-general responsible for İstanbul’s underground railway infrastructure, and Hüseyin Hacıoğlu from the parking administration, İSPARK, resigned after the newly elected mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, assumed...

Turkish courts handed down sentences to 41 journalists in the first half of 2019

The Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) has announced that the first six months of the year saw the trial of 287 journalists, 41 of whom were sentenced...

Turkey imposed 369 curfews in Southeast in last 4 years: report

Local Turkish authorities imposed 369 curfews in the southeastern region of the country between Aug. 16, 2015 and July 1, 2019, according to the Turkish Human...

İstanbul court acquits defendants accused of Ergenekon membership

The İstanbul 4th High Criminal Court on Monday ruled to acquit 235 defendants who were accused of membership in the “Ergenekon armed terrorist organization,” the state-run...

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