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Editor briefly detained due to article titled ‘We can stop the dictatorship’

Ali Ergin Demirhan, an editor at the critical sendika.org news website, was briefly detained on Monday due to an article on the site in...

Election body decides to move ballot boxes in predominantly Kurdish provinces

In a development that has raised concerns about election fraud, Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has decided to move or merge ballot boxes in...

Erdoğan planning to establish army of bureaucrats in new term

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to appoint 500 new bureaucrats under his administration if he...

Conscript in 5th day of military service given 14 life sentences on coup charges

The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court handed down aggravated life sentences to 41 defendants on Friday, among them Ahmet Özdemir, who was fulfilling his...

You can’t hit us with foreign exchange rates, Erdoğan says

Turkey’s President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan implied during a rally in Isparta on Sunday that...

OHAL commission rules to reopen 6 ‘terrorist’ associations due to lack of evidence

Turkey’s state of emergency (OHAL) commission, established in 2017 to investigate complaints related to the loss of state jobs and organizations shut down by...

MHP’s Bahçeli reiterates general amnesty proposal in election manifesto

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli gave a speech in Ankara on Saturday announcing his party’s election manifesto and reiterating his call for...

Kılıçdaroğlu unveils CHP manifesto, promising to fix 5 fundamental problems

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Saturday unveiled the party’s election manifesto, based on remedying five fundamental problems in Turkey and focusing...

SP claims police failed to intervene in attack on campaign workers

The Felicity Party (SP) has released a statement concerning an attack on campaign workers by members of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), claiming that...

YSK approves consolidation of polling stations in Southeast

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Saturday evening accepted requests from the governor’s offices of 19 provinces to consolidate polling stations, a move strongly...

[OPINION] US Treasury targets Erdoğan’s links to Iran’s IRGC

Abdullah Bozkurt The United States Treasury has named an Iran-sanction-busting Turkish citizen and several companies in Istanbul as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under an...

Turkish gov’t to employ 25,000 new police officers

The Turkish government will hire 25,000 new police officers following a mass purge in police ranks after a failed coup attempt on July 15,...

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