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666 people detained to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday announced that 474 people have been detained on terror charges due to their posts on social media critical of...

568 detained in one week over alleged Gülen movement links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 568 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

HDP elects Buldan and Temelli as new co-chairpersons

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) elected Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli as its new co-chairpersons during a party congress in Ankara on Sunday,...

Pro-Erdoğan TV presenter threatens Cumhuriyet daily over Afrin story

Yusuf Ozan, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV, on Sunday targeted the Cumhuriyet daily over a story it ran on the Afrin operation...

12 Turkish soldiers killed on Saturday in Afrin operation

The Turkish military stated on Saturday that 12 soldiers were killed during an operation in the Afrin region of Syria, including two soldiers who...

AKP İstanbul provincial chairman resigns from post

Head of the İstanbul branch of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Selim Temurci has announced his resignation from his post, in which he...

Detention warrant issued for HDP Co-chairperson Kemalbay

Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued a detention warrant for Serpil Kemalbay, co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), just two days before a...

Religious group leader critical of government put in pretrial detention

Alparslan Kuytul, president of the Furkan Foundation and leader of a religious group critical of the Turkish government, has been put in pre-trial detention...

Law professor: State of emergency commission is AKP’s ‘gas chamber’

İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of constitutional law who was fired by a state of emergency decree on Feb. 7, 2017, said the commission established...

100 acquitted, 64 given life sentences in military academy coup trial

An Ankara court has ruled for the acquittal of 100 suspects while handing down life sentences to 60 others and aggravated life sentences to...

31 HDP, HDK officials detained in home raids ahead of HDP congress

Turkish police teams have detained 31 Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP) and Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) officials in raids on their homes in İstanbul ahead...

Survey: Majority of Turks believe Europe wants to divide Turkey

An overwhelming majority of Turks believe that Europe wants to divide Turkey in the same way the Ottoman Empire was divided, according to a...

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