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Co-mayors of 3 Kurdish towns in Turkey detained in counterterrorism operations

The co-mayors of three districts of Turkey’s southeastern city of Hakkari were detained on Saturday as part of counterterrorism operations, officials announced. Seferi Yılmaz, Adile...

Police mistreat leftist lawyers in custody, subject them to ‘musical torture’

  Four lawyers and six law students who were detained as part of an investigation into the leftist İstanbul People’s Law Bureau on Thursday were...

Number of journalists in Turkish prisons ‘cannot be determined,’ justice minister says

It is not possible to “determine” the number of journalists in Turkish prisons, said Turkey’s justice minister in response to a parliamentary question on...

[BREAKING] Russian ship runs aground in İstanbul

A Russian ship run aground off the coast of İstanbul's Bosphorus due to heavy winds on Friday. According to Turkey's Doğan news agency, it was...

Erdoğan on executive presidency: The nation’s wish will be realized

Speaking to university students in Ankara on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that the desire of the nation would be realized as far...

Deputy PM: Terrorist organizations aim to stop rising countries, especially Turkey

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek argued on Friday that there is a “big plot” in place in the Middle East and that terrorist organizations...

Mayor, co-mayor of Kurdish town arrested on terror charges

The mayor and co-mayor of the Kızıltepe district of Mardin in southeastern Turkey were arrested on Friday on charges of terrorism as part of...

UN rapporteur speaks of environment conducive to torture in Turkey

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer during a press conference in Ankara on Friday talked about an environment conducive to torture following...

Turkey now detains lawyer representing imprisoned HDP co-chair

Sevda Çelik Özbingöl, a lawyer representing Figen Yüksekdağ, the arrested co-chair of Turkey’s third largest political party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has...

3,592 staff members returned to posts at Education Ministry

Turkey's Education Ministry announced on Friday that 3,692 staff members who were recently suspended as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen...

Turkey seizes 691 companies over alleged ties to Gülen movement

The state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has announced that a total of 691 companies have been seized by the government due to alleged...

Dink murder trial judge detained over alleged Gülen links

One of the judges hearing a trial of public officials implicated in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was detained in his chambers...

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