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Turkey set to build 174 new prisons to make space for coup purge

An unprecedented increase in the number of people jailed as part of Turkey’s ever-expanding purge following a July 15 coup attempt has created the...

Opposition leader slams arrests of journalists, writers in Turkey

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has strongly criticized the arrest of journalists and writers, lambasting the authorities for preventing them...

16 PKK members killed in Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq

A total of 16 suspected members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed by airstrikes near the border with Iraq over...

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup [OPINION – ÖZCAN KELEŞ*]

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup* Özcan Keleş** Gareth Jenkins once criticized Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of...

Minister says gov’t will take over 65 Gülen-linked schools abroad

Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said the Maarif Foundation, established by the government to deal with Turkish schools abroad, is planning to take over...

Pro-gov’t daily says leftist newspaper to be closed down

  The pro-government Yeni Akit daily ran a controversial story on Wednesday claiming that the government is planning to close down the leftist newspaper Evrensel,...

Deputy PM rules out new settlement talks with PKK

Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak, commenting on a recent message sent by jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, has...

Gov’t says CHP can’t take post-coup decrees to Constitutional Court

Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said it is technically impossible for the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to take decrees issued during...

AKP politician killed in armed attack in Hakkari

A politician from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Ahmet Budak, died on Wednesday in an armed attack in the Şemdinli district of...

İHD: Old torture devices make comeback during Turkey’s emergency rule

A member of Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD), lawyer Gülseren Yoleri, has said there is torture in Turkey’s detention centers and that torture devices...

Long Eid holiday leaves Altan brothers in legal limbo

Veysel Ok and Ergin Cinmen, lawyers for prominent journalists Mehmet Altan and Ahmet Altan, who were detained four days ago, yesterday issued a joint...

Erdoğan: Still a long way to go in anti-Gülen fight

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that the government has covered significant ground but that further measures will be taken in the fight...

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