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Turkey’s arrested journalists ask for indictment, trial without detention

A number of Turkish journalists, most of whom were jailed in the wake of a failed coup attempt on July 15, have asked for...

Turkey loses 5 soldiers during clashes in Syria in two days  

One Turkish soldier was killed and five others were injured in clashes with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in northern...

Erdoğan threatens to open border gates for refugees after EP vote

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened to the open border gates to Europe for millions of Syrian refugees as he lambasted the European...

PM Yıldırım holds Gülen movement responsible for weakening Turkish economy

At a time when the Turkish government has been waging an all-out war on the faith-based Gülen movement, the country's prime minister, Binali Yıldırım,...

Turkish airstrikes kill at least 9 PKK terrorists in SE Turkey

At least nine militants from the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed by Turkish airstrikes in the southeastern Turkish provinces of Şırnak and...

Turkey’s economy minister: I want no more states of emergency

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi said on Thursday that he does not want another extension of a state of emergency that was declared following...

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...

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