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Aided by colleagues, abusive policeman seeks ways to dodge charges

With police brutality already proven to have increased in recent protests across the country, Ali Genç, an abusive officer who was involved in a...

Keskin says torture has never been legitimized to this extent

Lawyer and human rights activist Eren Keskin said a state of emergency (OHAL) has been used to cover up all violations in Turkey, saying...

Doğan group fires TV presenter who says ‘no’ to new charter

Turkey's Doğan Media Group has fired İrfan Değirmenci, a presenter on Kanal D, because he declared on social media that he would vote "no"...

MHP to punish deputies who say ‘no’

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) announced it would punish deputies who say "no" to a constitutional amendment package that will be voted in a...

[UPDATE] ISIL gunman arrested for attack on Reina nightclub

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the prime suspect in a Jan. 1 massacre at the Reina nightclub in İstanbul who has been under investigation since his capture...

Hotel cuts power to prevent talk by expelled opposition deputy

A former candidate for leadership of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Meral Akşener, was forced to address party members in the dark when...

Turkey’s FM: Not a single journalist imprisoned for reporting

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has told Spanish media that not a single journalist is imprisoned in Turkey due to their reporting and that...

Erdoğan says will of God, the nation to be realized in new system

Speaking in support of a switch to an executive presidential system to be voted in a referendum on April 16, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Dismissed professor Kaboğlu says purge is a dishonor to academics

İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of constitutional law and one of 330 academics dismissed in a recent government decree, has said ongoing purges in Turkey are...

CHP deputy claims Erdoğan said ISIL wouldn’t harm Turkey

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Dursun Çiçek has claimed that in light of intelligence that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

Court releases officer who accompanied army chief to Kardak islets

A court in Ankara early on Saturday released a military officer who was likely to become Turkey’s first female general but was detained due...

Bedridden mother dies after daughter arrested over links to Gülen movement

Eighty-six-year-old bedridden Fahriye Asrak died on Thursday after her daughter Nejla Akdağ was arrested by a court over links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

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