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Turkey censors textbooks that include word ‘Pennsylvania’

As part of an ongoing purge of anything that could remotely be associated with Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed...

Man who turned Gülen’s poems into songs detained in Antalya

A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained...

Belgian justice minister orders close scrutiny of Diyanet mosques amid spying claims

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens has announced that he has ordered security and intelligence units in the country to closely monitor mosques operated by...

School principal arrested on charges of sexual abuse of 9 students

A high school principal in the Black Sea province of Bolu who was detained on suspicion of sexually harassing nine female high school students...

Doğan Holding says representative arrested for buttoning jacket near Gülen

In the wake of the arrest of Doğan Holding Ankara representative Barbaros Muratoğlu over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement on Thursday, the...

33 detained in anti-ISIL operation in Konya

Thirty-three people have been detained for alleged links to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the central Turkish province...

Retired military prosecutor warns TSK will stage coup if national unity not maintained

Ahmet Zeki Uçok, a retired military prosecutor with the Air Forces Command, has warned from his personal Twitter account that the Turkish Armed Forces...

Turkey paid $36 million to Erdoğan’s son-in-law’s company for 6 UAVs

Some $36.77 million has been paid from the Turkish state budget to the Baykar Makina company, owned by the family of President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish police beat human rights lawyer while under detention

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past four days, was battered by police officers when he resisted efforts to handcuff...

Police detain SE district co-mayors from pro-Kurdish DBP

The co-mayors of Batman’s Gercüş district, Zeynep Oduncu and Abdülkerim Kaya from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), who had been replaced by trustees...

Indictment against HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ accepted by court

A court in eastern Van province on Thursday accepted an indictment against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ, who was detained by police...

HDP Diyarbakır deputy, former mufti, detained for leading ‘civilian prayers’

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy Nimetullah Erdoğmuş, a former mufti of Diyarbakır, was detained by police on Thursday on allegations of leading...

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