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Video game portrays opposition mayoral candidate’s quest for mandate

While a controversy surrounding the İstanbul results in Turkey’s local elections continues, an online video game has appeared featuring the popular opposition candidate’s so far inconclusive struggle...

3 suspects in killing of 16 stray dogs in Ankara released pending trial

Three people suspected of poisoning 16 stray dogs in Ankara were released pending trial on Thursday, Sputnik Turkish service reported. The prosecutor objected to the ruling,...

9 municipalities to be transferred from HDP to AKP after election authority denies mandate for purge victims

A decision by Turkey’s election authority this week requires that nine municipalities be handed over to runners-up from the ruling party instead of the elected opposition candidates...

300 purge victim judges, prosecutors barred from obtaining law licenses: report

Three hundred judges and prosecutors who were dismissed by the Turkish government but also acquitted or cleared of charges of membership in terrorist organizations have been...

HSBC Turkey chief acquitted of Erdoğan insult charges

A Turkish court has acquitted HSBC bank's Turkey chief of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan through Twitter, Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday. Selim...

HDP demonstrates against decision banning purge victim mayors from taking office

Members of Turkey's main Kurdish party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Thursday held a demonstration in southeastern Turkey in protest of a decision by the...

Jailed woman forced to go through labor for two days in handcuffs

A pregnant woman who was jailed due to her links to a radical, leftist organization in Turkey was forced to go through labor for two days...

Wives of jailed police chiefs who exposed corruption given lengthy prison sentences

A high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesday handed down six year, three month prison sentences to 12 individuals including the wives and siblings of former...

Election authority says elected mayors not to be given mandate if they are purge victims

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has announced that candidates who were elected as mayors during local polls held on March 31 will not be given the...

Court orders mental assessment of man claiming cover-up in daughter’s death

A court in Giresun on Wednesday ordered the hospitalization of Şaban Vatan, the father of Rabia Naz, who died under suspicious circumstances a year ago, to...

Voters deleted from database identifiable from surnames as AKP supporters, claims former İstanbul mayor

Former İstanbul mayor Mevlüt Uysal from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Wednesday that nearly 3,000 voters whose registration had been deleted from...

Court conducts crime scene investigation 5 years after Gezi victim’s death

A Turkish court on Wednesday conducted a crime scene investigation in the Okmeydanı district of İstanbul where the late Berkin Elvan was hit by a pepper...

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