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Gülen’s nephew among 34 arrested as part of gov’t-initiated operations

Thirty-four people, including Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s nephew Mehmet Mezher Gülen, have been arrested as part government-initiated operations targeting the Gülen movement across...

Binali Yıldırım elected as new chairman of AK Party

A total of 1,405 delegates has selected the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communications Binali Yıldırım as the new chairman of the ruling Justice...

Whistleblower reveals Erdogan’s widespread illegal arms trade

A Turkish whistleblower has revealed that the Turkish government is involved in a massive arms trade and huge sums of cash transfers disguised as...

Police detain 18 in gov’t-initiated operations against Gülen movement

Police officers on Saturday detained 18 people, including businessmen and police chiefs, as part of operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement in İzmir, Balıkesir...

Court releases prominent businessman Dumankaya arrested in witch-hunt operation

Renowned businessman Halit Dumankaya -- an executive board member of Dumankaya Holdin -- who was arrested along with eight others as part of an...

Zarrab donated nearly $5 mln to Turkish first lady’s foundation

The attorney for disgraced Iranian businessman has reported that his client donated nearly $5 million to an association founded by the Turkish first lady,...

Protester throwing eggs at main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu detained

A protester was detained in Ankara capital after throwing eggs at main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu during a soldier’s funeral...

YÖK forces academics to sign ‘repentance petition’ to keep jobs, lawyer claims

A lawyer representing academics who signed a peace declaration, which calls for an end to violence in Turkey's southeast and criticizes the Turkish government's...

Survey says Turkey fails to adopt successful foreign policy

The “Research on Public Perception of the Turkish Foreign Policy,” a survey conducted by the Center for Turkey Studies in Kadir Has University, has...

Erdoğan says impartiality not possible in practice for presidents

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered questions of the young people during a live broadcast by pro-government TV stations ATV and A Haber and said...

Turkish Parliament approves bill on lifting lawmakers’ immunity with 376 votes

Turkish Parliament’s General Assembly voted for on a bill, which calls for a constitutional amendment to remove the lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution, for the...

Turkish-born Aziz Sancar dedicates Nobel Prize to Atatürk

Turkish-born Aziz Sancar, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA, dedicated his award to...

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