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Police detain shopkeepers for closing stores in protest of arrest of Kurdish politicians

Turkish police have started detaining shopkeepers who have closed their stores in protest of the arrest of Kurdish politicians and mayors from the pro-Kurdish...

Critical columnist: Erdoğan’s son-in-law will replace current PM

A columnist for Turkey’s secular-nationalist opposition paper Sözcü on Saturday repeated his claim that Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım will be replaced by President Recep...

Municipal logo removed from Diyarbakır City Hall

  The logo of the Diyarbakır Municipality was removed on Saturday from the facade of city hall following the arrest last month of elected Co-mayors...

Lawyer: Police chiefs interrogated under influence of drugs, torture

  A lawyer for two imprisoned police chiefs claimed on Friday that the two men, who had been privy to the secrets of President Recep...

Co-mayors of 3 Kurdish towns in Turkey detained in counterterrorism operations

The co-mayors of three districts of Turkey’s southeastern city of Hakkari were detained on Saturday as part of counterterrorism operations, officials announced. Seferi Yılmaz, Adile...

Police mistreat leftist lawyers in custody, subject them to ‘musical torture’

  Four lawyers and six law students who were detained as part of an investigation into the leftist İstanbul People’s Law Bureau on Thursday were...

Number of journalists in Turkish prisons ‘cannot be determined,’ justice minister says

It is not possible to “determine” the number of journalists in Turkish prisons, said Turkey’s justice minister in response to a parliamentary question on...

[BREAKING] Russian ship runs aground in İstanbul

A Russian ship run aground off the coast of İstanbul's Bosphorus due to heavy winds on Friday. According to Turkey's Doğan news agency, it was...

Erdoğan on executive presidency: The nation’s wish will be realized

Speaking to university students in Ankara on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that the desire of the nation would be realized as far...

Deputy PM: Terrorist organizations aim to stop rising countries, especially Turkey

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek argued on Friday that there is a “big plot” in place in the Middle East and that terrorist organizations...

Mayor, co-mayor of Kurdish town arrested on terror charges

The mayor and co-mayor of the Kızıltepe district of Mardin in southeastern Turkey were arrested on Friday on charges of terrorism as part of...

UN rapporteur speaks of environment conducive to torture in Turkey

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer during a press conference in Ankara on Friday talked about an environment conducive to torture following...

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