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Turkey detains 237 people over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities have detained 237 individuals over the past two weeks in operations across 42 provinces targeting people accused of links to the faith-based...

PACE panel urges consequences for Turkey over refusal to enforce European rights rulings

Bünyamin Tekin, Strasbourg A British member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said Wednesday that continued inaction over Turkey’s refusal to...

Erdoğan says Turkey preparing legal framework to speed PKK’s laying down of arms

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday that his government is preparing a legal framework to accelerate the process of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...

ISIL suspect killed in raid ahead of NATO summit in Ankara

Police killed a man suspected of ties to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants during a raid in a district near...

ECtHR faults Turkey in 893 more cases over systemic flaws in terrorism convictions

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday found violations in 893 more applications from Turkey, extending its case law on systemic defects...

Turkey arrests 2 more mayors as probes into CHP-run municipalities continue

Two district mayors from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) — Ali Ercan Akpolat of İstanbul’s Adalar district and Mustafa Turgut of Silifke...

Fugitive accused in $3.7 bn Medicare fraud scheme returned to US after capture in Turkey, FBI says

Ibrahim Khaldoon Hilmi, a fugitive accused of involvement in an alleged $3.7 billion fraud scheme targeting Medicare, the US government health insurance program, has...

Far-right leader attacks EU report calling for sanctions on Turkish officials, action on Grey Wolves

Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Tuesday criticized a recent European Parliament report on Turkey that called on the European...

Threads returns to Turkey after regulator lifts interim measure

Meta has restored access in Turkey to its social media platform Threads, nearly two years after shutting down the service to comply with an...

Turkey seizes 6 companies, appoints trustees to 10 in fuel sector tax probe

Turkish Justice Minister Akın Gürlek announced Tuesday that six companies have been seized and trustees have been appointed to 10 others as part of...

Strasbourg rally to press Europe over Turkey’s refusal to enforce ECtHR rulings

Rights advocates, purge victims and Turkish expatriates from across Europe are expected to gather in Strasbourg on Wednesday to call on the European Court...

ECtHR faults Turkey for prolonged detention of businessman jailed over Gülen links

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to liberty of jailed businessman and philanthropist Cafer...

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