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Union calls for delayed school opening after teacher purges by gov’t

With only days to go until the new school year kicks off, education unions are calling on authorities to consider a delay in the...

Traffic fatalities reach 60 in Turkey before end of Eid holiday

A total of 60 people died and 371 injured in traffic accidents across Turkey as of seventh day of Eid al-Adha holiday which will...

Turkey sees record rise in mosque construction in last decade

  A total of 8,985 new mosques were constructed in Turkey between 2005 and 2015, data from the country's top religious body has revealed. According to...

Corruption prosecutor jailed for Gülen links found dead in prison

A 47-year-old public prosecutor who was put behind bars following a foiled coup on July 15 in the western province of Bursa as part...

5 PKK militants killed during military operations in Şemdinli

Five militants from the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed during a military operation in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari province on Friday. According...

Pro-gov’t media lambaste US for congressional hearing on Turkish coup attempt

Several pro-government newspapers in Turkey have lashed out at the US administration for a recent US congressional hearing during which speakers expressed views that...

Renowned Turkish actor Tarık Akan dies of cancer at 66

Legendary Turkish actor Tarık Akan died on Friday morning at the age of 66 at a private hospital in Istanbul where he had been...

Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy co-chairperson arrested in Tokat

Alp Altınörs, deputy co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was arrested along with five others in the central province of Tokat on...

10 killed, 5 wounded in PKK attack near Iran border

Seven village guards, two soldiers and one civilian were killed and three soldiers and two civilians wounded in what appears to be an attack launched by...

Journalist Altan brothers to remain under detention until Sept. 20

Veysel Ok, a lawyer for journalists Mehmet Altan and Ahmet Altan, who were detained on Sept. 10, has said the journalists' period of detention...

[OPINION] Is the Kurdish settlement process warming up?

Berk Uluç After months of almost total isolation, the Turkish government permitted visits to leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, who is...

Turkish gov’t officials slam Der Spiegel over depiction of Erdoğan as dictator

Officials from the Turkish government have lashed out at German magazine Der Spiegel over a special edition on Turkey in which the country’s president,...

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