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US sends message of support on anniversary of coup attempt in Turkey

US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert issued a press statement on Friday expressing support for Turkey’s democracy and democratic institutions on the occasion of...

33 Swedish media groups call on Erdoğan to free jailed journalists

The editors-chief of 33 media organizations in Sweden sent an open letter to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on the anniversary of a failed coup...

HDP deputy Geveri released after brief detention

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Van deputy Adem Geveri has been released after a brief detention in Ankara, the Diken news website reported on...

Turkish Journalists’ Association not to give Press Freedom Prize in 2017

The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC), which has been giving the Press Freedom Prize since 1989 on July 24, Press Freedom Day, has announced that...

July 15 coup attempt to be taught as a lesson in Turkish schools

Turkey’s Education Minister İsmet Yilmaz has announced that a July 15, 2016 coup attempt is going to be part of the new curriculum in...

Manufacturer designs special prison uniforms for Gülenists

A textile manufacturer in Turkey has said he is willing to donate 50,000 jumpsuits that he designed for people jailed over links to the...

CHP chair not to attend July 15 ceremony after his speech removed from schedule

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is not going to attend an early Sunday morning ceremony in Parliament to observe the first anniversary...

Erdoğan: If Turkey did not have rule of law, traitors would be lying in random pits

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday claimed that if Turkey did not adhere to the rule of law, tens of thousands of "traitors" would...

Kılıçdaroğlu asks who ordered intelligence, army heads not to testify to coup commission

Addressing Parliament during a special session to commemorate the first anniversary of a botched coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Erdoğan slams release of Kurdish politician from prison

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized the release of veteran Kurdish politician and former mayor of Mardin Ahmet Türk from prison due to...

Another woman who just gave birth to be detained by police in Turkey

A group of police officers have been waiting outside the private Hizmet Hospital in İstanbul's Bahçelievler district in order to detain a woman who...

7,348 more dismissed under draconian new gov’t decree

A total of 7,348 people, including 302 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by a new government decree, known as a KHK, that...

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