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Writer Alpay arrested for membership in terrorist organization

As part of an investigation launched into the Özgür Gündem daily, publishing consultant board member, linguist and writer Necmiye Alpay was arrested by an...

Demirtaş, Buldan called to testify for insulting Turkish president

The top prosecutor’s office in Ankara has called Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and HDP deputy Pervin Buldan to testify as part...

Demirtaş’s Urfa meeting cancelled over security concerns

An anti-coup meeting that was planned in Şanlıurfa on Saturday and expected to be attended by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has...

CHP rejects calls to attend judicial ceremony at Erdoğan’s palace

The Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday declined calls by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ for CHP...

Erdoğan: Gülen is behind problems in Syria and Iraq

In yet another move to make the Gülen movement, inspired by the views of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a scapegoat for every...

Erdoğan: Gülenists aim to take control of world

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed his call to the people to inform authorities about followers of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and said...

Court denies appeal for journalists’ release, claiming ‘no evidence of innocence’

  An İstanbul court has rejected an appeal submitted by columnists who wrote for the Zaman daily, which was shut down by the government in...

Report: Turkey tasks MİT with hunting down alleged coup plotters in Europe

  Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has been tasked with locating, arresting and even killing military officers who fled Turkey after allegedly taking part in...

Minister calls on Kılıçdaroğlu to attend ceremony at palace

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has strongly criticized main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Chairman...

ISW report: Erdoğan using coup to reshape the military

A report drafted in the wake of Turkey’s foiled coup of July 15 by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a non-partisan,...

Former İstanbul police chief detained as part of post-coup investigations

Former İstanbul police chief Hüseyin Çapkın has been detained for alleged involvement in a failed military coup attempt on July 15. Detention warrants have been...

CPJ’s Turkey blog: Failed coup speeds Turkey crackdown

By Özgür Öğret Police raid newspaper offices, detain at least 23 employees Police in the southeastern Turkish city Diyarbakır yesterday raided the main office of the...

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