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Deputy PM asks party members to prepare for referendum on presidential system

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş told party members in Bursa on Wednesday that Turkey would soon hold a referendum on Turkey’s switch to...

Erdoğan visits Pakistan as Turkish teachers at Pak-Turk schools ordered to leave country

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday evening for a two-day visit, a day after the Pakistani government asked teachers who...

[VIDEO] AKP, CHP deputies almost come to blows over Israel on TV show

A debate on Turkish-Israeli relations on a Wednesday evening TV show almost turned into a fistfight between main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul...

[UPDATE] Siirt Co-mayor Bakırhan arrested, two other co-mayors detained

Siirt Co-mayor from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Tuncer Bakırhan, who was detained on Wednesday morning along with two other Kurdish mayors, was arrested...

16 people including Islamic scholar Gülen’s cousin detained in İzmir

Sixteen people, including one of the cousins of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, were detained in the western province of İzmir on Wednesday as...

Court releases jailed HDP Co-chair Demirtaş’s lawyer on probation

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş's lawyer Levent Pişkin, who was detained on Monday after visiting the HDP co-chair in prison, was...

Court rejects HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ’s request for release

A Diyarbakır court on Wednesday turned down a lawyer’s request for the release of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ. Yüksekdağ, along with...

Syrian President Assad calls Turkey’s Erdoğan ‘megalomaniac’ and ‘sick’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a megalomaniac and a sick person when asked about Erdoğan's comments on...

Court rules HDP deputy Öcalan be brought by police to testify

A Şanlıurfa court has ruled that pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Dilek Öcalan must be escorted by police to testify at the next...

Erdoğan’s chief advisor to French journalist: Dictator is your mother

One of the chief advisors of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, journalist Saadet Oruç, forced the limits of civility when she responded to a Twitter...

Erdoğan names PM advisor Ökem as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel

Turkey has appointed a foreign policy adviser to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, cementing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial,...

Erdoğan says Belgium a center for PKK militants and coup plotters

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday accused Belgium of being an important center for supporters of both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and...

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