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486 people detained over Gülen links in past week

Turkish police detained 486 people between Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, according...

Turkish academic announces he will not vote for any woman candidate in local elections

A professor of aviation and space sciences at Turkey’s Necmettin Erbakan University has announced that he will not vote for any female candidate in...

Erdoğan troll claims pro-government columnists blackmail Turkish mayors

Fatih Tezcan, a well-known troll for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in a web broadcast that two pro-government columnists, Hadi Özışık and  Süleyman...

Detention warrants issued for 32 purged Health Ministry staff over Gülen links

Ankara’s Counterterrorism and Organized Crime Bureau on Monday issued detention warrants for 32 people who had previously been dismissed from the Ministry of Health...

Academic arrested on charges of organizing Gezi Park protests, Kavala links

İstanbul Bilgi University NGO Education and Research executive Yiğit Aksakoğlu, who was among academics detained on Friday for alleged links to jailed businessman and...

4 out of 13 academics detained for organizing Gezi protests released

Four out of 13 academics who were detained on Friday morning on accusations of organizing and financing the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and...

Turkey detains 74 in southeast region over PKK affiliation

Turkish police on Friday detained 74 people during raids in the predominantly Kurdish cities of Diyarbakır, Elazığ and Hakkari as part of operations against...

Woman gets husband arrested as Gülen sympathizer after he asks for divorce

A woman in İzmir reported her husband to Turkish authorites six months ago, accusing him of being a Gülen movement sympathizer after he asked...

13 academics detained for organizing Gezi protests, ties to activist Kavala

In a new wave of detentions in Turkey, 13 academics were detained on Friday on accusations of organizing and financing the Gezi Park protests...

Young woman arrested for insulting Atatürk and Erdoğan

A 19-year-old woman in Turkey’s western province of Uşak was arrested on charges of insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of...

Turkey to start construction of Canal İstanbul next year, despite criticism

Turkey plans to launch the construction of artificial sea-level waterway Canal İstanbul in 2019, the transport and infrastructure minister said on Thursday, despite criticism...

EU court highlights procedural errors in putting PKK on 2014-2017 terrorist lists

The Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that the listing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by the EU as a terrorist organization...

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