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Victim of torture in Kurdish village arrested

Abdi Aykut, who was allegedly tortured during a recent military blockade of the village of Koruköy in southeast Turkey’s Mardin province, was arrested on...

CHP report on state of emergency tallies massive purge

A report released by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on the impact of a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of...

Erdoğan says system change in Turkey would create many more Erdoğans

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been advocating a change to an executive presidency, said on Thursday that if Turkey could establish a system...

40 military personnel detained over Gülen links

As of Thursday morning, 40 members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had been detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement. Police operations across...

28 more dismissed teachers detained over Gülen links

In a series of police operations conducted in Turkey on Thursday morning, 28 previously dismissed teachers were detained over links to the Gülen movement. Detention...

Prosecutor who put Bilal Erdoğan reference on record demoted

Prosecutor Bayram Kuş, who put on the record the testimony of an imprisoned local governor who gave President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal as...

Jailed journalist Öğreten gets married in prison

Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested on Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...

Prosecutor demands 7.5 years for teacher who brought up gov’t violence in SE on TV show

A public prosecutor on Wednesday demanded seven-and-a-half years in prison for teacher Ayse Celik, who talked about violence in the mainly Kurdish Southeast of...

Turkish intelligence submits names of 122,000 ByLock users for prosecution

Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has submitted a list of names and mobile phone numbers of 112,000 people who use ByLock, a mobile application...

US-based Turkish scholar Gülen denies rumors of moving to Canada

Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has lived in self-imposed exile Pennsylvania since 1999 and whose views inspired the Gülen movement, said on Wednesday that...

Turkish governors, local mayors are no-shows at meetings with US’s Adana consul

Governors and local mayors of Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır provinces did not show up for scheduled appointments with Linda Stuart Specht, the US consul...

Pro-gov’t TV presenter avoids prosecution for insult of Armenian deputy

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has declined to investigate pro-government A Haber TV presenter Özlem Özcan, who called Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from...

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