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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...

Car bomb in Van injures at least 48 people

One of the largest provinces in eastern Turkey, Van was struck by a terrorist attack Monday morning as the nation observes the religious festival...

9 more academics jailed over Gülen link

A Turkish court ruled for the arrest of nine academics in Konya on Monday due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the...

82 arrested, 31 detained over coup charges on Sunday

  A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...

PM: Gov’t to continue appointing administrators to Kurdish-run municipalities

Rebuffing public criticism sparked by a government decision to remove elected Kurdish mayors suspected of having links to militants, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...

Turkish media says 1980 coup rule is continuing with AKP

To the dismay of observers and people in Turkey, the country has remained much the same 36 years after a military coup on this...

HDP calls for mass protests against removal of Kurdish mayors

A government decision to remove elected Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Southeast has sparked an uproar across the region as People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson...

Altan brothers denied access to lawyers as long holiday begins

Turkey’s renowned critical columnists, brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, still have no access to their lawyer even after spending two days in detention,...

[BREAKING] Turkish-Jewish businessman İshak Alaton dies at 88

One of Turkey’s most highly renowned businessmen, İshak Alaton, passed away on Sunday. Alaton had founded Alarko Holding in 1954 along with his late partner...

Feud among locals leads to curfew in Black Sea town

A feud on the streets of the northern Black Sea town of Durağan on Sunday has resulted in a decision by the local administration...

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