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AKP deputy chairman: Main opposition leader deserves to be tried

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Yasin Aktay said on Friday that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu deserves...

Trustee appointed to Varto district after mayor’s arrest

The Ministry of Interior Affairs on Friday appointed a trustee to the Varto Municipality in eastern Muş province to replace the elected mayor, who...

Turkish government removes ban on headscarves, beards among TSK civil servants

Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has abolished a ban preventing female civil servants from wearing headscarves and male civil servants from growing...

Arrested UN judge denies Gülen links, says he is Freemason  

Turkish judge Aydın Sefa Akay, who is serving on the UN war crimes panel and was arrested in September as part of a government...

Erdoğan says Turkey going through its freest, most peaceful and enjoyable period ever

At a time when Turkey is going through one of its most turbulent periods, with the arrest of thousands of people and an ongoing...

Cumhuriyet CEO Atalay detained at İstanbul airport

The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, was detained at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Friday upon his arrival from Germany based on a...

Turkish district governor dies after PKK bomb attack

Former Derik District Governor Muhammed Fatih Safitürk, who was appointed as a trustee to the Derik Municipality in Mardin in September, died in a hospital...

The Economist: Turkey’s more relevant models are Kazakhstan, Russia

The London-based Economist weekly news magazine described the executive presidential model that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to switch to as more similar...

MHP leader promises PM Yıldırım support for new constitution

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Thursday promised Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım to support the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

Imprisoned Cumhuriyet columnists say all they did was journalism

In messages sent through Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies Şafak Pavey and Sezgin Tanrıkulu, who paid a visit to imprisoned Cumhuriyet columnists and executives...

Turkey commemorates Atatürk on 78th anniversary of death

A majority of Turks attended events on Thursday to commemorate the memory of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In the above photo,...

Indictment demands life sentence for Özgür Gündem advisors Alpay, Erdoğan over ‘terrorist propaganda’

  An indictment concerning the now-closed pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem has demanded a sentence of aggravated life in prison for author Aslı Erdoğan and linguist...

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