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AK Party executive board takes back Davutoğlu’s authorities on key appointments

In what could be seen as a major move to curb authorities of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Justice and Development Party (AK Party)...

Trustees fire 50 more journalists from Zaman daily, Cihan News Agency

A panel of trustees who were appointed to Feza Media Group as part of a government-backed operation in March have laid off 50 more...

British academic faces 5 years in jail over ‘terror propaganda’

Turkish prosecutors have demanded up to five years in jail for a British university lecturer based in İstanbul on charges of making “terror propaganda”...

Cumhuriyet columnists handed down jail sentences over Charlie Hebdo cartoons

An İstanbul court on Thursday handed down two-year-long jail sentences to Cumhuriyet daily columnists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Çetinkaya on charges of "insulting religious...

Turkey set to deport Finnish journalist from country

A public prosecutor has decided for the deportation of Finnish journalist and writer Taina Niemela from the country on the grounds that she has...

15 detained as part of probe into Bursa suicide bombing

Fifteen individuals have been detained as part of an investigation into a suicide bombing that hit western province of Bursa on Wednesday, killing the...

Suicide bomber blow herself up in Bursa, 1 killed

A female suicide bomber on Wednesday blew herself up near a major mosque in the Turkish city of Bursa, killing herself and wounding at least...

AK Party set to shut down eight more critical TV channels, CHP deputy claims

A deputy from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Barış Yarkadaş, has claimed that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government will...

US warns of ‘credible threats’ to Turkish tourist spots

The US Embassy in Ankara warned US citizens in Turkey on Tuesday about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country. Turkey has been...

Erdoğan, gov’t distance themselves from speaker’s secularism remarks

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and several officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Tuesday said a controversial call made by...

Top religious body expels seven imams over links to Gülen movement

Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, which took disciplinary action against some imams and muezzins in the western province of Denizli last February, has expelled seven...

AK Party says speaker’s call for secularism-free charter his personal opinion

Officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) have said a recent call by Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman for a constitution that...

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