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Turkish minister indicates purges to continue with ByLock users

The Turkish government's witch-hunt against dissidents is continuing as Labor and Social Security Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu told reporters in Bursa on Tuesday that the...

Police officer kills AKP member for calling him Gülenist

A police officer at a hospital in İzmir shot and killed a hospital security guard, who is also the district president of the ruling...

Senior AKP official says gov’t should take over the entire HDP

Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy group chairman Bülent Turan has said the recent appointment of trustees to some municipalities run by the pro-Kurdish...

CHP to take post-coup gov’t decrees to Constitutional Court

  The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is going to take nearly all government decrees issued during a state of emergency declared in the...

Minister says Turkey to teach US ambassador it is independent state

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has reacted harshly to US Ambassador John Bass for an embassy statement on the appointment of trustees to some municipalities...

Turkey officially asks US to arrest Gülen on coup charges

  Turkey’s Justice Ministry has officially asked the US to temporarily arrest Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, claiming that he gave the order for a...

CCBE head urges President Erdoğan to release lawyers in Turkish prisons

  Michel Benichou, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), has stated that he is deeply concerned about the safety...

Turkish deputy PM admits indiscriminate gov’t purge of dissidents

Among the more than 50,000 people dismissed from government jobs by Justice and Development Party (AKP) government decrees during the state of emergency declared...

Turkish minister says 3,000 more employees to be purged

Turkey's Health Ministry is working on a group of 3,000 people among its employees to be purged from the institution, Health Minister Recep Akdağ...

Erdoğan supports municipality step: Overdue

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday expressed support for the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities, 24 of them run by pro-Kurdish parties, saying...

PKK chief: If the state is ready, we could resolve the conflict in 6 months

Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has sent a message of reconciliation to Turkish authorities, calling for an immediate halt...

EP rapporteur: State of emergency turns into pressure tool against Kurds

  Following Turkish government’s replacement of elected mayors mostly in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday, Kati Piri, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey...

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