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İdil district mayor arrested on terrorism charges

Mayor of the İdil district of the southeastern province of Şırnak Mehmet Muhdi Aslan, who was removed from his post last week by Turkey’s...

DW files lawsuit against Turkish minister over confiscation of video

German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) has filed a lawsuit against Turkey’s Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç over his ministry’s confiscation of video...

4 soldiers killed in roadside bomb attack in Mardin

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and six others were wounded in a roadside bomb attack perpetrated by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in the...

HRW calls on Turkey to lift ‘scandalous’ entry ban on Lagendijk

Human Rights Watch Turkey Director Emma Sinclair-Webb has called on Turkish authorities to lift what she called a “scandalous” ban on former European parliamentarian and...

7 out of 24 suspended teachers in Diyarbakır arrested over links to PKK

Seven teachers who were among 24 suspended from their jobs in early September and detained last week over links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’...

Ruling AKP deputy says 619 Gülen sympathizers detected within party

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy Mustafa Ataş told the pro-government Star daily on Saturday that a total of 619 Gülen movement...

Police detain 25 protestors in rallies endorsing secularism in Turkey

Turkish police detained 25 protesters in the central province of Eskişehir when members of Birleşik Haziran Hareketi (BHH, United June Movement) distributed pamphlets defending...

3 musicians detained in southeastern Turkey for singing Kurdish songs

In yet another disturbing incident in the southeastern province of Tunceli, three singers have been detained over what their friends say was for singing...

3 suspected PKK militants arrested in İstanbul for planning attacks

An İstanbul court has arrested three suspects with alleged ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based on intelligence indicating that they were...

Turkish Ministry asks school principals to report about PKK-linked teachers

A recent circular from Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked school mayors to rat on teachers whom they consider affiliated with the outlawed PKK, implying...

Media mogul’s secretly recorded audio found in Turkish minister’s hacked emails

Media mogul Aydın Doğan urged his staff to soften its criticism of the government in a 2014 meeting that included editors and columnists in...

US-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen’s relatives detained in Erzurum

Six relatives of US-based Turkish scholar Fethullah Gülen on Saturday were detained in a new phase of a crackdown against the Gülen movement, in...

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