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Student poetry competition winner to accompany Erdogan on overseas trip

Turkey’s Education Ministry, in cooperation with the Language and Literature Association and the Turkish Language Council (TDK), is promising the top prize of joining...

83-year-old shares jail cell with grandson

Eighty-three-year-old Hacı İsa Sezek is being kept in the same holding cell with his 29-year-old grandchild as Turkey exploits ambiguous terror laws to imprison...

15 more academics detained in post-coup probes in Denizli

At least 15 academics from Pamukkale University in Denizli were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Court accepts indictments seeking long jail terms for HDP co-chairs

A Diyarbakır court on Tuesday accepted indictments for Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ seeking long jail sentences for both...

[UPDATE] [VIDEO] Court releases CHP Party Council member detained over critical tweets

Sera Kadıgil, a member of the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Party Council who has been referred to court for arrest in İstanbul for allegedly...

UN orders Turkey to release judge arrested over alleged Gülen links

A United Nations legal panel has ordered Turkey to release a judge who is among thousands of people arrested over their alleged links to...

HDP spokesperson Bilgen arrested on terror charges

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and party spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen was arrested on terror charges on Tuesday, one day after his detention on...

14 nightclub attack suspects referred to court for arrest

Fourteen people who were detained in connection to a nightclub attack on New Year's Day in İstanbul that claimed the lives of 39 people...

Turkey’s population nears 80 million, İstanbul remains most crowded city

Turkey's population saw an increase of more than 1 million in 2016, reaching 79,814,871, while İstanbul remained the country's most populous city, according to...

Deputy PM says Trump’s Muslim ban unacceptable, humiliating

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş has criticized a ban imposed by US President Donald Trump on travelers from seven Muslim-majority...

President Erdoğan, PM Yıldırım agree on April 9 for referendum

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım have agreed on April 9 for a referendum on a constitutional amendment package that...

[VIDEO] Mother of 5 children abandoned in parking lot released on high bail

A Turkish court on Monday released a housewife, a mother of five whose children were abandoned in a parking lot after her detention, on...

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