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Veteran Turkish columnist quits writing columns amid media pressure

Fifty-nine-year-old veteran journalist Umur Talu has stopped writing columns, citing pressure on the media along with nationwide problems, ranging from high unemployment to civilian...

[VIDEO] Police storm HDP offices, leave message on walls: ‘We will be back’

Police carried out multiple operations early on Monday in at least seven provinces to detain 120 officials from pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) local...

CHP’s Tanrıkulu: Package may allow Erdoğan 14 years in power

Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu says the package of constitutional reform proposals facilitating a switch to a presidential system of governance...

Turkish military says warplane crashed near Diyarbakır

  The Turkish military issued a statement on Monday reporting that a fighter jet had crashed near Diyarbakır during a training mission. No casualties were reported...

[VIDEO] Protestors call consuls general visiting scene of terror attacks ‘murderers’

Unidentified individuals protested 30 consuls general serving in İstanbul after they laid wreaths in memory of 44 victims killed in twin blasts near Beşiktaş...

AKP deputy lists main opposition CHP among terror organizations

  Former speechwriter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Aydın Ünal listed the main opposition Republican People’s...

Former consul held captive by ISIL says Ankara ignored his calls for help

The former consul general of the Turkish consulate in Mosul, Iraq, Öztürk Yılmaz, who was held hostage by the Islamist State in Iraq and...

Court releases man who attacked pregnant woman in park

A Turkish court on Monday ruled to release a man who attacked a four months pregnant woman in a park in Manisa’s Turgutlu district...

CHP calls on gov’t to take measures against terrorism, not to just condemn it

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has called on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to take the necessary measures to...

CHP’s social media expert detained for tweet about İstanbul blasts

Mücahit Avcı, a social media expert working for the main opposition Republican People's Party(CHP), was detained on Monday due to a Twitter message he...

Jailed HDP Co-chair Demirtaş condemns ‘merciless massacre’ in İstanbul

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who was jailed last month along with nine deputies from his party, has said...

HDP Co-chair Demirtaş suffers coronary artery spasm in prison

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who was jailed last month, has suffered a coronary artery spasm in prison, a...

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