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Turkish military defectors say they are secular Kemalists, fear torture if extradited

Eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July have said they are secular Kemalists and have...

President of Siirt Bar Association detained on coup charges

Siirt Bar Association President Mehmet Cemal Acar was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Altan brothers asked about Sledgehammer coup plot during police interrogation

On the 11th day of their detention, journalist and author brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan were asked about a suspected military coup plan...

Students threatened by school after refusing to write poems on Turkey’s failed coup

A group of students at an İstanbul high school have been threatened with disciplinary action after they refused to write poems and letters about what...

Turkey detains bar association head, 5 lawyers in post-coup purge

A total of 6 lawyers, among them the president of Trabzon Bar Association Orhan Öngöz, were detained as part of an investigation into the...

Another 76 detained in Turkey over use of ‘suspected’ mobile app

Seventy-six public officials who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, have been detained as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

Mavi Marmara flotilla organizer: Turkey in weak position with Israel

Bülent Yıldırım, president of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in...

AKP deputy: Naive to think ‘FETÖ’ has not infiltrated our party

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Sakarya deputy Ayhan Sefer Üstün said on Tuesday that there should also be a cleansing within the...

Erdoğan expands his witch-hunt against Gülen movement to UN General Assembly

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan expanded his witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement to the United Nations General Assembly as he called on world leaders...

Altan’s lawyers: Stories of ‘evidence’ in Turkish media are distorted

  Following news stories that appeared in the Turkish media on Tuesday reporting on “evidence” of the Gülen movement affiliation of detained columnist Professor Mehmet...

Kyrgyz president hospitalized in İstanbul on way UN meetings

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev fell ill while travelling to İstanbul, from where he would fly to New York to attend the UN General Assembly,...

Prosecutor again summons Demirtaş to testify

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has summoned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş to give testimony as part of an investigation...

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