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Former Turkish PM Davutoğlu openly hints at rumored new party

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Sunday publicly signaled the establishment of a new political party, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported. In a speech at a fast-breaking dinner...

Local re-run elections change 2 out of 4 Turkish districts mayors

Local re-run elections on Sunday reversed the outcome of the March 31 elections in two out of four provinces, the Hürriyet Daily News reported. The March 31...

CHP deputy questions vice president about allegations of torture of former diplomats

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy and prominent human rights activist Sezgin Tanrıkulu in a parliamentary question asked Turkey’s vice president about allegations of torture perpetrated on former...

Polling station officials under investigation will serve again on June 23, says election authority

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that polling station chairs and officials who are under investigation by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on accusations of...

Kurdish journalist Baysal briefly detained on accusations of terrorism

Nurcan Baysal, a Kurdish journalist and human rights activist, was briefly detained on Monday on accusations of membership in a terrorist organization, Turkish media reports said. Baysal was...

Chechen leader’s son stars on Turkish state-run TV

Adem Kadyrov, one of the sons of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, has appeared in an episode of a Turkish TV show broadcast by...

Turkish Airlines to stop offering Armenian weekly to passengers

Turkey’s national carrier Turkish Airlines (THY) will no longer offer Armenian weekly newspaper Agos to its customers at the international terminal in İstanbul, the Artı Gerçek news...

HDP aims to persuade 200,000 Kurdish voters to support opposition’s İmamoğlu

Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan has said their election campaign will aim to convince some 200,000 Kurds who failed to vote in a...

Uber drivers seek AKP mayoral candidate’s help after company shuts down XL services in Turkey

Uber drivers have asked for help from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul mayoral candidate Binali Yıldırım after the US-based company decided to shut down...

Turkey launches investigation into German journalist over social media accounts

Ankara prosecutors have opened an investigation into German journalist of Turkish descent Süheyla Kaplan, over posts on her social media accounts, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on...

Ministry launches investigation into adoption of Kurdish name for Tunceli province

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into a recent decision of the municipal council of Tunceli in eastern Turkey to start calling the province by...

İstanbul municipal employee fired for donating to İmamoğlu’s campaign

Nuri Başkapan, who worked for the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, has been fired from his job of five years for donating money to an opposition mayoral candidate’s...

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