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Local mayor dismissed from office for insulting President Erdoğan

Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Affairs on Thursday dismissed a local mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) after he was convicted of insulting the...

Thousands celebrate Newroz in Diyarbakır

Newroz, a festival marking the start of spring in many cultures, is being celebrated on Thursday in Diyarbakır, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority province. The celebrations attracted...

HDP deputy given suspended sentence for violating law on demonstrations

Ayşe Sürücü, a deputy from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a suspended sentence of 20 months on charges of violating a...

Turkey spends 1 million Turkish lira to fly 2 officials to New Zealand

Turkey has come under criticism in the local press for flying a jet to New Zealand with only two officials aboard, spending an estimated 1...

Jailed lawyer sentenced to 11 years on terrorism charges

Turkish lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı, former president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) who has been behind bars since November 2017 on terrorism charges, was handed...

Former deputy claims New Zealand attack targeted Erdoğan

Metin Külünk, a former deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), claimed in a speech that a massacre at two mosques in New Zealand...

Online platform writer arrested for praising New Zealand massacre

A 24-year-old Turkish man was arrested on Tuesday due to remarks praising a shooting rampage in two mosques in New Zealand last Friday that claimed the...

AKP deputy criticizes Erdoğan for playing New Zealand massacre video at rallies

Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mustafa Yeneroğlu has criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for airing at election rallies the footage of a massacre that took...

Erdoğan says will approve reinstatement of death penalty if passed by parliament

In a development that came as no surprise to anybody, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has brought the reinstatement of the death penalty back...

Erdoğan vows to punish attacker if New Zealand does not: report

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday said Turkey would make a man accused of murdering 50 people in two Christchurch mosques last week pay...

‘Godless, atheist’ Kurdish party members ‘fired bullets at mosque’: Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed that members of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), “a team of godless, atheists, nonbelievers” in his words,...

Opposition municipal candidate claims verbally attacked at mosque

Necdet Gökçınar, a candidate for mayor of İstanbul from the opposition Felicity Party (SP), has said he was verbally attacked in the yard of...

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