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İYİ Party vows to abolish OHAL, lower election threshold in election manifesto

The İYİ (Good) Party, which has announced its election manifesto for the June 24 general elections, promised to eliminate an ongoing state of emergency,...

Turkey’s interior minister accuses former US ambassador of perpetuating Afghan refugee flow

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu accused former US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass of perpetuating a recent migrant flow from Afghanistan during a Monday...

[ANALYSIS] How Gezi Park shaped Turkish politics and media

May 27 of this year marked the fifth anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, which on the one hand pushed then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

TRT hits back at İnce, claims sufficient airtime allocated to his campaign

Turkey’s state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), which is being criticized by Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce as well as other...

Video footage shows elderly woman crushed to death by military vehicle in Diyarbakır

Recently released security camera footage shows how an 85-year-old woman was crushed to death by an armored military vehicle on a road closed to...

Presidential candidate Demirtaş’s lawyers apply to Constitutional Court for release

Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Tuesday applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court for his release,...

Bodies of pregnant woman and young girl found on Evros River

The bodies of a pregnant woman, around 35 years of age, and a young girl, around 10, were found in different spots on the...

Report: Private media, like state-run TRT, minimize coverage of Turkish opposition

A recent study on news channels has revealed that not only public broadcaster TRT but also private media have allocated minimal or no airtime...

CHP demands to examine request sent to US for extradition of Gülen

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has demanded the Justice Ministry make available files that were sent to the United States for the requested...

545 detained in one week over alleged Gülen links

A total of 545 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Turkish Interior...

[UPDATED] Prosecutor launches investigation into Atatürkist organization over ‘coup tweet’

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday launched an investigation into the Atatürkist Thought Organization (ADD) over a tweet shared yesterday on the...

American pastor standing trial in Turkey ‘a totally innocent man,’ says Trump

An American pastor standing trial in Turkey on allegations of aiding terrorist groups is “a totally innocent man,” US President Donald Trump said on...

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