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PEN Int’l calls for reinstatement of journalist’s wife’s travel documents

PEN International has released a statement condemning the confiscation of the passport of journalist Can Dündar’s wife at an Istanbul airport on Saturday, calling...

Turkey deploys first armed drone in operations

Turkey has finally armed its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Bayraktar TB2 with a missile and began to deploy the much-needed drone against separatist insurgents...

75 arrested, 55 others detained on coup charges on Sunday

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...

Turkish PM: 14,000 teachers will be suspended over links to PKK

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım told reporters at a meeting in Diyarbakır on Sunday that there are nearly 14,000 teachers who are somehow affiliated...

PM to HDP: If citizens take to the streets, you’ll be looking for holes to crawl in

  Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım threatened the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) during a speech in Diyarbakir on Sunday, saying that if citizens take to...

Indictment claims Gülen secretly made cardinal by John Paul II

  An indictment prepared by an İzmir prosecutor against individuals who were arrested over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement includes the claim that...

AKP co-founder Arınç’s nephew, son-in-law among those sacked from state bodies

Two relatives of a former speaker of parliament and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Bülent Arınç were dismissed from their positions by...

4 injured in bomb explosion outside İstanbul bar

  Four people were injured in a suspected bomb explosion outside a bar in İstanbul’s Çağlayan neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday. Unidentified parties on...

Former Istanbul police chief jailed over alleged links to Gülen

Former Istanbul Chief of Police Hüseyin Çapkın has been jailed over alleged links to a movement inspired by US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. It...

 Dancer dismissed for selling house through Bank Asya account

Yücel Emre Kaynarsu, a principal dancer at the İzmir Opera and Ballet, was reportedly dismissed from his job for using a Bank Asya account...

Journalist Can Dündar’s wife banned from travelling abroad

The Turkish government has banned the wife of former Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet daily Can Dündar from travelling abroad after seizing her passport at...

28 security force members, 100 PKK terrorists killed in 2 days

At least 28 members of the Turkish security forces were killed during clashes between the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the military in...

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