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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...

Turkey detains three Kurdish mayors

Turkish police early on Wednesday detained one of the co-mayors of the eastern province of Siirt and the co-mayors of Tunceli province as part...

Turkish gov’t reportedly bans EP rapporteur Kati Piri from entering Turkey

The Turkish government has reportedly banned Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament, from entering Turkey following the release of an EP report harshly...

US attorney in Zarrab case submits graft documents that implicate former Turkish ministers

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara on Tuesday submitted new documents to a court in the case of Iranian-Turkish...

Indictment: Turkish justice minister asked US attorney Bharara to release gold-trader Zarrab

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ, who recently met with his counterpart, Loretta Lynch, in Washington and told her that the prosecution of Turkish-Iranian gold-trader...

CHP leader says arrest of politicians in Turkey possible at any time

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said since Turkey's courts are no longer independent, it is possible for...

MHP expels deputy from party after remarks against executive presidency

The disciplinary board of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has expelled Gaziantep deputy Ümit Özdağ from the party after the deputy publicly announced his...

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