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Turkey orders detention of 62 including military, police officers, over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors on Monday and Tuesday ordered the detention of 62 people, including military members and police officers, as part of a massive post-coup crackdown targeting...

16,540 military members dismissed over Gülen links: ministry

Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Monday announced that 16,540 military members have been dismissed as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting faith-based Gülen movement followers, the Hürriyet...

3,000 prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey, says rights group

The number of prisoners who have joined a hunger strike to press Turkish authorities to end the “isolation” in jail of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan has...

Israel afraid of Turkey due to religious high school graduate administrators, says Erdoğan’s son

Bilal Erdoğan, a son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said Israel is afraid of Turkey because Turkey is governed by administrators who are graduates...

Criminal complaint filed against British speaker who likened Atatürk to the devil

The İstanbul Bar Association has filed a criminal complaint against Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, a British Muslim convert of Greek heritage and a public speaker who attracted widespread criticism...

Turkey’s top court to examine petitions of 10 convicted journalists

Turkey’s Constitutional Court will on Thursday review the petitions of 10 journalists who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on...

2 years on, Wikipedia still remains blocked in Turkey

April 29 marked the second anniversary of a ban imposed by Turkish authorities on access to popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, with some international press organizations calling on...

Teacher claims Turkish Foreign Ministry protested Kurdish language course at Tokyo university

Vakkas Çolak, a teacher of Kurdish language at the University of Tokyo, said the Turkish Foreign Ministry approached Japanese officials to protest Kurdish language lessons that...

Protestors disrupt funeral of retired Turkish colonel who allegedly ordered torture in 1980s

A group of Turks held a protest at the Monday funeral of retired Col. Raci Tetik, 88, the infamous Ankara Mamak Prison warden who allegedly ordered...

Western media outlets launch YouTube news channel in Turkish

Germany’s Deutsche Welle media outlet has launched a YouTube news channel, +90, in Turkish with the collaboration of BBC, France 24 and Voice of America. With the...

Turkish gov’t narrative of 2016 coup attempt upended by newly discovered video footage

New video footage indicates that contrary to the official narrative, Turkey’s then-chief of general staff left an airbase held by putschists on the night of a...

Erdoğan vows to confront critics inside party after local election losses

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Saturday to confront opponents inside his own party weeks after he suffered shock election defeats in the capital Ankara and...

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