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Aydın man sentenced to 14 months in prison over insult to Erdoğan

Mehmet Şahin Işık, who was earlier briefly detained for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been given a 14-month jail sentence on...

Turkey negotiating with Russia over S-400 air defense systems

Turkey and Russia have started talks for the purchase of S-400 air defense systems, the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily reported on Wednesday. According to the...

Union HQ attacked after chairman vows to vote ‘no’ in referendum

The headquarters of Kamu-Sen (Turkish Public Workers Labor Union) were attacked by a group of people after İsmail Koncuk, the head of the union,...

463 flights from İstanbul airports cancelled due to snow

Turkish Airlines (THY) announced on Wednesday that 327 flights from Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports on Jan. 26 and 27 have been cancelled due...

Expelled MHP deputy: Erdoğan republic is being formed

Ümit Özdağ, a deputy who was expelled from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), said on Wednesday that with constitutional amendments which will establish an...

Erdoğan to approve executive presidency proposal as soon as possible

Making a statement on a constitutional amendment package that will officially bring an executive presidency to Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday...

[UPDATE] HDP deputies Adıyaman, Taşçıer released after detention

Two pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies, Mehmet Emin Adıyaman and İmam Taşçıer, were detained and released on Wednesday. The HDP’s Iğdır deputy Adıyaman announced in...

[UPDATE] Two HDP deputies released after brief detention

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Yıldırım were released on Wednesday after a brief detention as part of a crackdown on...

CHP’s İnce: CHP deputies will be jailed just like HDP deputies

A vocal critic of his own party, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce said on Wednesday that CHP deputies will be...

Detention warrants issued for 52 purged Supreme Court of Appeals members

As part of an ongoing purge in Turkey, detention warrants were issued on Wednesday for 52 dismissed members of the country’s Supreme Court of...

Erdoğan advisor: New system is not one-man rule, but one-man government

One of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisors, lawyer Mehmet Uçum, said that a switch to an executive presidency in Turkey will not bring...

Turkey plunges from 66th to 75th place in TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2016

Global watchdog Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 on Wednesday in which Turkey plunged to 75th from 66th place among 176...

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