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Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’

At a time when Turkey ranks first on a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Norway grants asylum to 4 Turkish officers, 1 military attaché

Norway has granted asylum to four Turkish officers and a military attaché who applied for asylum in the country in the aftermath of a...

Court bans access to column after pro-Erdoğan media owner complains

A Turkish court has banned online access to a column by Ceren Sözeri that had been published in the Evrensel daily last year after...

[VIDEO] 21-year-old student arrested after his ‘No’ video goes viral ahead of referendum

Twenty-one-year-old university student Ali Gül was arrested days after a video he appeared in as part of a “No” campaign went viral in the...

Ministry: 94,000 fired, 30,000 suspended from state posts over Gülen links since July 15

Turkey's Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced on Tuesday that a total of 94,867 people have been fired while 30,618 others have been...

Prominent Turkish journalist Tayfun Talipoğlu dies at 55

Tayfun Talipoğlu, a prominent journalist and TV commentator known for his travel TV programs, died after falling ill at home in İzmir on Tuesday. According...

Calls for ‘no’ in referendum mark Nevruz celebrations across Turkey

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to public squares across Turkey on Tuesday to celebrate Nevruz, which was marked by messages calling for a...

Erdoğan signals review of relations with EU after April 16 referendum

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has recently been employing an anti-European rhetoric, has said Turkey will review its relations with the EU following a...

EU’s Hahn says Turkey joining EU ‘unrealistic’ under Erdoğan

Johannes Hahn, the European commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations, has said the prospect of Turkey joining the EU is becoming “more and...

Court issues detention warrant for journalist Nesin on terror charges

An İstanbul court has issued a detention warrant for writer and journalist Ahmet Nesin, son of the late famous Turkish novelist Aziz Nesin, on...

Minister says heard sound of weapons being cocked during crisis in Netherlands

Turkish Minister of Family and Social Policy Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, who was expelled from the Netherlands on March 11 after insisting on going...

Turkey says 3 ISIL suspects linked to Berlin market attack detained at İstanbul airport

Three suspects allegedly linked to the slain perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin last December by the Islamic State...

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