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Turkey jails two more female pro-Kurdish mayors

A court in Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province on Thursday arrested Adile Kozay, the co-mayor of Yüksekova, and Hilal Duman, the co-mayor of Çukurca, on...

Turkey sends 300 troops to reinforce operations in Syria: state media

Turkey has deployed 300 commandos to northern Syria to reinforce Operation Euphrates Shield aimed at pushing Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...

Nationalist daily Yeniçağ’s headquarters attacked in İstanbul

A group of assailants on Thursday evening attacked the headquarters of the nationalist Yeniçağ daily in the Yenibosna neighborhood of İstanbul. The newspaper said in...

AKP, MHP agree on constitutional amendment draft

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have reached agreement on a constitutional amendment that seeks to introduce...

Demirtaş denies charges in Erdoğan insult case, says he quoted Bahçeli’s remarks

Jailed co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who on Thursday testified to a court over charges of insulting President Recep...

HDP questions Energy Minister Albayrak about Wikileaks emails

Amid the Turkish media’s self-censorship over the leaked emails of energy minister and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...

[VIDEO] Erdoğan’s chief advisor: Foreign chefs in Turkey are spying

Chief advisor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former columnist Yiğit Bulut claimed on live TV that foreign chefs who host cooking shows are...

Greece refuses to extradite 2 more Turkish soldiers allegedly involved in putsch

A Greek appeals court on Thursday overturned a decision to extradite the last two of eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece in the...

Trustees appointed to 2 Diyarbakır municipalities after arrest of mayors

Turkey's Interior Ministry has appointed trustees to the Kayapınar and Yenişehir municipalities in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır whose mayors were arrested on Wednesday. Kayapınar...

[UPDATE] HDP deputy Hüda Kaya released after brief detention

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya was released following a brief detention by the Turkish police on Thursday. Kaya was detained during a...

ECtHR rejects petition of teacher fired by government decree  

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected a petition from a Turkish teacher who was expelled from his position under a government...

35 detained in operations targeting Gülen-linked dormitories

Thirty-five people have been detained as part of an investigation conducted by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office into dormitories linked to the faith-based...

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