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Municipal energy company’s staff tasked with campaigning for AKP candidate, opposition deputy says

Mahmut Tanal, deputy for İstanbul from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has claimed that a natural gas company owned by the İstanbul Municipality urged its...

Turkish presidency enacted quadruple the legislation passed by parliament over last year: report

The Turkish Presidency in the last year issued 37 executive decrees containing 1,880 articles of legislation, while the parliament only managed to pass 32 laws that...

Turkish polling company says ruling party’s Yıldırım is leading İstanbul race

Turkish polling company ORC on Friday said their latest survey indicates that the ruling party’s İstanbul mayoral candidate, Binali Yıldırım, is leading the race by 0.3...

ECtHR rejects 2010 application of Sledgehammer defendants

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Thursday found an application made in 2010 by retired general Çetin Doğan and the late retired general Cem...

Turkey’s election board removes 13 election officials, citing irregularities

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has removed from their posts and launched an investigation into 13 election officials over their alleged responsibility for irregularities detected in...

Governor threatens to intervene in opposition rally, İmamoğlu claims

Opposition mayoral candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has claimed that the governor of Ordu requested that he cut short a rally in the province and threatened to step...

Turkish singer investigated for dedicating song to 13-year-old Gezi Park victim

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Turkish singer Alpay after he at a concert commemorated a 13-year-old boy who was killed by the police during the...

Ruling party candidate agrees to debate İmamoğlu on TV

Ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) İstanbul mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım has announced that he agrees in principle to face his rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, in a televised...

Flyers claiming exorbitant municipal spending considered ‘insult to president’

Turkish police intervened in a political gathering in İstanbul on Sunday and confiscated flyers about allegedly extravagant spending in the İstanbul Municipality, saying they constitute the crime...

Turkey detains 17 people with alleged Gülen ties on their way to Greece

Turkish police on Saturday detained 17 people who were on their way to Greece fleeing a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Some 15 percent of Turkish population subjected to prosecution in 2018

Over 13 million Turkish citizens, roughly 15 percent of the entire population, were the subjects of prosecution in 2018, amounting to an increase of 5 million...

Turkey detains some 27,000 irregular migrants in May: report

A total of 27,536 undocumented migrants and 561 human smuggling suspects were detained across Turkey in May, the country’s deputy interior minister has said, according to...

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