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Detained woman, newborn baby transferred to police station 240 km from home

Detained hours after giving birth at a private hospital in İstanbul early on Tuesday, a woman named Ayşe Kaya has been transferred to a...

Journalism seen as crime only in totalitarian regimes, says jailed Cumhuriyet reporter Şık

Cumhuriyet daily reporter Ahmet Şık, who was detained on Dec. 22 and arrested on Dec. 30, 2016 on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda, said...

Court hands down record 217-year sentence to Quran instructor for sexual abuse

A court in Turkey's northern province of Giresun on Wednesday sentenced an assistant Quran instructor to 217 years, four months and 15 days in...

Association president proposes not renting houses to Gülen-linked people in Turkey

Konya Chamber of Real Estate Agents President Sedat Altınay said on Wednesday that real estate agents should have a system to prevent people with...

Ankara appoints Turkey’s first headscarved deputy as ambassador to Malaysia

Former Virtue Party (FP) deputy Merve Safa Kavakçı, whose citizenship was revoked after she attempted to take the parliamentary oath wearing a headscarf in...

CHP deputy: Justice, health, internal affairs ministries controlled by Menzil movement

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Mahmut Tanal has said the ministries of justice, health and internal affairs are controlled by the...

[VIDEO] CHP deputy covers podium with black cloth to protest new bylaws

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Özgür Özel covered the podium in Parliament with a black cloth before addressing the...

2 out of 10 imprisoned rights activists released on probation

An İstanbul court on Tuesday released rights activists Nejat Taştan and Şeyhmus Özbekli, who were among 10 rights activists, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director...

Up to 10 years in prison sought for HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ

A prosecutor has drafted an indictment seeking up to 10 years in prison for Co-Chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ,...

HDP launches nationwide protests that will continue until November

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies launched a series of protests on Tuesday that will continue until Nov. 4, the anniversary of the detention...

Erdoğan dismisses German economic embargo, says they will lose

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed the threat of an informal German economic embargo and said Germany would lose in a long-running diplomatic...

114 detained in İzmir-based investigation into Gülen links

Turkish police have detained 114 people in a İzmir-based probe for their alleged links to the faith based Gülen movement, the t24 news website...

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