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Turkish university student sentenced to 7.5 years over Gülen links

Muhammed Harun Bulut, a Turkish university student in Adana province, on Thursday was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for membership in the faith-based...

Turkish columnist turns self in to serve prison sentence for insulting Erdoğan

A Turkish columnist who was assaulted last month in front of his apartment turned himself in on Thursday to serve a nearly one-year jail sentence for...

İstanbul University students prevented from displaying blank poster at graduation

Journalism students at İstanbul University were prevented from displaying a blank poster at their graduation ceremony out of fear that a political message could later be...

İstanbul Municipality workers demonstrate against opposition candidate İmamoğlu

Employees of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality on Wednesday held a demonstration in protest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition candidate for İstanbul mayor, accusing him of conducting a...

We can’t accept no progress in Gülen’s extradition case: Turkey’s justice minister

“It is not possible for us to accept that there is still not any progress on this issue,” Turkey’s justice minister told journalists in Washington, referring...

Erdoğan not to hold election rallies for repeat İstanbul vote

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), will not hold rallies for his party’s mayoral...

AKP’s Yıldırım deletes tweet after criticism for ‘ecumenical” reference to Bartholomew

Binali Yıldırım, a former Turkish prime minister and the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) mayoral candidate for İstanbul, has deleted a tweet in which he referred...

Detention warrants issued for 56 on charges of restructuring Gülen-linked education activities

The chief public prosecutor’s office in the southern Turkish province of Adana has issued detention warrants for 56 people on accusations that they were restructuring educational activities...

Turkish opposition politician briefly denied passport over ‘terrorism links’

Temel Karamollaoğlu, the leader of the Turkish opposition Felicity Party (SP), has said that his request for a new passport was rejected by the authorities for...

Turkish labor watchdog reports death of 26 underage workers in 5 months

Turkey’s Health and Safety Labor Watch (İSİG) has said at least 26 underage workers died in work-related accidents in Turkey in the first five months of...

Interior Ministry starts examining İmamoğlu’s 5 years as district mayor

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an inspection in İstanbul’s Beylikdüzü district of documents dated between 2014 and 2019, when the opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu,...

5 rights groups urge UN Committee Against Torture to start inquiry into Turkish prisons

Five advocacy and human rights groups urged the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) to initiate an inquiry into increasing cases of torture and ill treatment...

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