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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...

ISIL urges supporters to stage attacks targeting Turkish missions abroad

Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer, a newly identified spokesman for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), urged sympathizers around the world to carry...

SE Şemdinli district Co-mayor Seferi Yılmaz arrested

Seferi Yılmaz, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-mayor of the Şemdinli district in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, was arrested on Monday on charges...

Access to another Turkish media outlet blocked by government

Access to opposition news portal sendika12.org was blocked by the Turkish government on Monday. The media platform said the government has banned their website 14...

Doctor fired from hospital after being targeted by pro-gov’t newspaper

Abuzer Meral, a doctor at a private hospital in Turkey’s Yalova province, lost his job after the pro-government Yeni Akit daily targeted Meral over...

Group protests Israel’s proposed ban on call to prayer as new ambassador arrives in Ankara

A pro-Palestinian group in the Turkish capital staged a protest outside the Israeli Embassy on Monday as Israel's new ambassador to Turkey arrived in...

PM Yıldırım hopes to submit constitutional draft this week

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Monday said he plans to submit a constitutional amendment on the switch to a presidential system to Parliament before...

Turkey launches second military surveillance satellite

Turkey’s second military surveillance satellite, Göktürk-1, was launched from French Guiana on Monday with a ceremony held simultaneously in Ankara. The high-resolution earth observation satellite...

Wikileaks publishes Erdoğan’s son-in-law’s hacked emails

Several months after a Turkish hacker group leaked the inbox of Turkey’s energy minister and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak, Wikileaks has...

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