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Turkish PM threatens EU: Cutting off talks would bring ‘flood’ of migrants to Europe

In the wake of a European Parliament vote to freeze accession talks with Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Thursday threatened Europe, saying that...

UN torture rapporteur Melzer to visit Turkish prisons next week

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer will be in Turkey from Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 at the invitation of the Turkish government where...

60K teachers purged over coup charges, yet Turkey celebrates another Teachers Day

Turkey celebrated this year’s Teachers Day with grief since around 60,000 teachers have been the victims of a purge launched by the Justice and...

AKP coup commission members refuse to hear putschist general’s testimony

The parliamentary Coup Investigation Commission on Thursday declined to hear the testimony of putschist general Mehmet Dişli, the brother of a senior ruling party...

Turkish Constitutional Court worried about coping with 100K petitions

Complaining about the soaring number of individual petitions at Turkey’s Constitutional Court, acting president of the court Professor Engin Yıldırım said on Thursday that...

Court releases Fi Yapı construction owner arrested over Gülen links

Businessman Fikret İnan, the owner of the Fi Yapı construction firm who was arrested in August as part of an operation against alleged followers...

8th body retrieved from mine collapse in Siirt, search continues for 8 missing

Search and rescue teams on Thursday retrieved the body of an eighth miner from a copper mine that collapsed in the province of Siirt...

Interior Ministry dismisses 44 local state administrators over Gülen links

Turkey's Interior Ministry on Thursday expelled 44 local state administrators from their posts on the grounds that they are linked to the faith-based Gülen...

Turkish EU minister says EP vote on freezing Turkey talks ‘null and void’

Turkey's EU Affairs minister has described a vote by the European Parliament (EP) in favor of freezing accession talks with Turkey as “null and...

Police seize second bomb-laden car in Adana

Turkish police teams on Thursday afternoon seized a second car filled with explosives in the southern province of Adana after the city's provincial governor's...

Poll shows 97 percent of Turks lack trust in judiciary

A total of 97.1 percent of Turks do not believe the judiciary in Turkey is independent and have no trust in the court system,...

Erdoğan says not revealed all he knows about Gülen movement

While over 37,000 people in Turkey have been arrested on coup charges and for being alleged sympathizers of the Gülen movement following a failed...

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