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AKP deputy bitten on leg during brawl in Parliament

Justice and Development Party (AKP) Trabzon deputy Muhammet Balta was bitten on the leg during a brawl in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday night,...

Turkish deputies come to blows during debate on constitutional reform

Turkish deputies exchanged blows in Parliament overnight as tempers flared in a debate on a constitutional reform package intended to expand the powers of...

MHP leader says Turkey must hold elections if constitutional amendments fail

Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said on Wednesday that Turkey’s legislature must be "renewed" if it fails to pass a constitutional...

450 miners fired after mine collapse in Turkey’s Southeast

Four hundred fifty men working in a mine in Siirt’s Şirvan district where at least 16 miners died in a collapse on Nov. 17...

38 police officers detained in Kars over alleged coup involvement

A total of 38 police officers were detained in Kars province on Tuesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the İhlas news agency...

84 more high-ranking military officers arrested over ByLock use

A total of eighty-four high-ranking military officers have been arrested by a court on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that authorities...

[VIDEO] AKP deputy attacks CHP female lawmaker during amendment vote altercation

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kocaeli deputy Fatma Kaplan Hürriyet was attacked by ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş...

Turkey seals off Democratic Arabs Association, closed by latest gov’t decree

Turkish police on Monday sealed off the building of the Democratic Arabs Association in the southeastern province of Mardin which was closed down by...

Third article approved in Parliament after brawl between AKP, CHP deputies

After a brawl between Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputies, the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday night approved...

Gaziantep Governor’s Office: Attack was not linked to terror

The Gaziantep Governor’s Office has announced that an armed attack on police headquarters on Tuesday was not a terrorist attack, Hurriyet reported on Wednesday. Two...

CHP deputy faces life sentence, Cumhuriyet editors 10 years in prison over truck story

An İstanbul prosecutor is seeking a life sentence for main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu and 10 years in prison for...

Demirtaş cites MİT undersecretary’s actions as justifying own refusal to testify

Jailed co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has said just as National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan’s not going...

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