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Pro-gov’t journalist says, ‘If only US soldiers had been in the helicopter crash’

A reporter working for the staunchly pro-government A Haber TV station has expressed regret that it was Turkish military officers rather than American soldiers...

[UPDATE] Military helicopter crash in İstanbul kills 4

Four officers were killed on Monday when a military helicopter crashed in suburban İstanbul, Turkish media outlets reported. The İstanbul Anadolu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office...

27 detained for visiting recently released Gülen-linked suspects

As part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish police in Antalya province on Sunday detained 27 people who...

High ranked candidate’s failure to get state job reinforces fears of politically rigged hiring in Turkey

Stoking fears of a politically rigged system in the hiring of public servants in Turkey, a candidate for a position in a Turkish public...

Police prevent HDP from marching in solidarity with deputy on hunger strike

Turkish police on Monday prevented pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies from marching in İstanbul’s Taksim Square in solidarity with deputy Leyla Güven, who...

Exiled journalist’s wife says she is being held hostage in Turkey

Dilek Türker Dündar, the wife of exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, complained about the human rights violations she has faced in Turkey since her...

Elderly man sentenced to read, summarize Erdoğan’s biography for insulting him

An İstanbul court sentenced 75-year-old Ali Şahin, who was accused of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to read and summarize 24 books, including...

Turkey to launch major operation against Gülen movement: interior minister

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Sunday vowed another large-scale operation against the Gülen movement, the Haber Türk newspaper reported. Addressing village headmen and civil...

‘We will wipe out produce wholesalers just like we finished off terrorists’: Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that his government will eliminate produce wholesalers the same way it neutralized terrorists in the mountains, the...

Turkey calls on China to close Muslim ‘concentration camps’

Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on China to end the mass detention of its Muslim Uighur minority and shut down a network...

Only 385 out of 2,504 mayoral candidates in Turkey’s local elections are women

There are only 385 female candidates out of 2,504 who will run in the local elections to be held in Turkey on March 31,...

AKP official defends mayoral candidate accused of theft, saying ‘he is our thief’

The head of a local branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the southern Turkish province of Mersin has stood up...

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