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Column on Erdoğan’s alleged ‘private army’ removed by court

A column by Cumhuriyet’s Çiğdem Toker on SADAT A.S. International Defense Consulting, which has also been called President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “secret army,” was...

Unity for Democracy Initiative to launch nationwide campaign for end of OHAL

The Unity for Democracy Initiative, which was established by a group of Turkish intellectuals, has decided to launch a nationwide campaign to ask for...

CHP deputy says rights violations in Turkey’s prisons worsen during OHAL

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Utku Çakırözer has said rights violations have become severe in Turkey's prisons during the emergency rule, or...

Greek court rules to extradite 3 putschist soldiers to Turkey

A Greek court has decided to extradite three soldiers who were allegedly involved in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15. Media reports...

Amnesty: 500,000 Kurds displaced in Turkey’s Southeast due to curfews, crackdown

Tens of thousands of residents of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Sur are among an estimated half million people forced from their homes...

Doğan Group holds Gülen movement responsible for record tax fine in 2009

The Doğan Group, which owns one of the biggest media companies in Turkey, has put the blame on the faith-based Gülen movement for a...

4 arrested in connection to mine collapse in Siirt

A Turkish court has arrested four people in relation to a mine collapse in Siirt's Şirvan district last month that claimed the lives of...

2 pro-Kurdish district mayors in Diyarbakır detained

Turkish police teams on Tuesday detained two district mayors in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır as part of a terrorism investigation. Kayapınar district Mayor Ali...

Turkey jails 45 pro-Kurdish mayors, seizes 35 municipalities to date

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 45 co-mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in the past couple of weeks and...

14 more academics jailed over alleged coup involvement

A total of 14 academics including professors, associate professors and research assistants from İstanbul's Yıldız Teknik University were arrested by a Turkish court on...

Turkish court arrests döner king Ali Usta on coup charges

Ali Özcan, the general manager of the Dönerci Ali Usta restaurant chain, has been arrested over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...

Kılıçdaroğlu’s top adviser under custody over ByLock use

Turkish police on Tuesday morning detained Fatih Gürsul, an advisor to main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on charges of using...

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