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21 imams, muezzins detained in anti-Gülen operation in Sakarya

Twenty-one employees of the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate working as imams and muezzins in the northwestern province of Sakarya were detained on Wednesday due...

Turkish jets pound PYD-YPG targets, killing around 200 militia fighters  

A Turkish air strike has killed as many as 200 fighters of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the YPG...

2 military members killed, 5 injured in clashes with PKK in Hakkari

One captain and one private were killed and five soldiers were injured in a clash between Turkish military forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...

MHP leader removes 10 district party heads in Aydın supporting rival

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has removed 10 MHP officials serving as heads of district branches in the western province of Aydın...

40 air force officers detained in post-coup purge in Konya

Forty officers serving at the 3rd Main Jet Airbase in Konya were detained on Thursday as part of post-coup operations targeting alleged followers of...

Police insult former Zaman columnist for not supporting President Erdoğan

  A police officer told former Zaman daily columnist Ali Bulaç, who has been in Silivri Prison since July 28 on coup charges, that he...

Judge who arrested alleged putschists jailed over ByLock app use

An Adana judge who arrested 10 high-ranking military officers including Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base commander, Gen. Bekir Ercan Van, on coup charges, has been...

Government-appointed trustees in Diyarbakır’s Ergani Municipality resign

Two out of three trustees, appointed by Diyarbakır Governor's Office as acting mayor of Ergani district in September, resigned from their posts on Wednesday. Ramazan...

Turkish mob boss to gov’t: Why bother with diplomacy? We’ll kill Gülen, his followers

Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı implied in a letter to the Justice Ministry that his mafia network could kill Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...

Deputy PM says legal action taken against 115,000 on coup charges since July 15

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş announced on Wednesday that prosecutors have taken legal action based on coup charges against a total of 115,000 people...

Pro-gov’t columnist claims Obama could be Gülen’s White House ‘imam’

Mehmet Barlas, a columnist from the pro-government Sabah daily who is known as a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in his...

16 Türk Telekom employees detained over ByLock use

Sixteen employees at Turkish telecommunications giant Türk Telekom have been detained in the second wave of an operation launched against the company targeting alleged...

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