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CHP calls on gov’t to wage serious fight against ISIL in Turkey

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) spokesperson Selin Sayek Böke has complained about the lack of a strong fight against the Islamic State in...

5 soldiers die in operations against terrorist PKK

Five soldiers were killed on Wednesday in Turkey’s Diyarbakır and Bingöl provinces while participating in counterterrorism operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK...

Father has son arrested for being ‘Gülenist’

Following the calls of Turkey’s regime to inform on people who are thought to have links to the Gülen movement, an Istanbul man called...

Critical YAŞ meeting sends 586 colonels into forced retirement

The Supreme Military Council (YAŞ), which convened at the Çankaya Palace on Tuesday, decided to send as many as 586 colonels into forced retirement,...

2 soldiers, 2 village guards killed in PKK attacks in Turkey’s Southeast

Two members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and two village guards were killed in separate attacks by militants of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’...

Court arrests 29 academics and university staff in İzmir over links to Gülen

As part of an ongoing witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement, an İzmir court on Tuesday ruled to arrest 29 academics and staff members...

Three rockets fired from Syria hit Kilis, no casualties

Turkey’s southeastern province of Kilis was hit by three rocket projectiles fired from Syria in the early hours of Tuesday that caused no casualties...

2016’s second YAŞ meeting starts at Çankaya Palace

Turkey’s Supreme Military Council (YAŞ) meeting, where promotions, retirements and dismissals in the Turkish Armed Forces are decided, has begun for the second time...

Another 95 police officers suspended in Turkey’s post-coup purge

A total of 95 police officers at the Istanbul Police Department have been added to the list of those who were suspended as part...

24 teachers arrested over use of ‘suspected’ mobile app

Police in Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Niğde on Sunday arrested 24 teachers who were found to be using ByLock, a smartphone messaging application, or what...

Turkish university dismisses 22 academics, 3 staff in coup probe

Turkey’s Afyon Kocatepe University (AKÜ) has laid off 25 of its personnel –22 of them academics–, bringing the total number of those purged so...

Turkey arrests two editors from pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem

Two journalists from the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was closed temporarily by a court decision last week, were arrested on Monday over charges...

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