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[OPINION] Turkey released ISIL Diyarbakır emir despite evidence

Abdullah Bozkurt Yet another trial involving the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) network in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern province of Diyarbakır has...

Muslim prayer rooms made obligatory in Turkish schools

Turkey's Education Ministry has issued a new regulation which requires all educational institutions to have a Muslim prayer room, reported t24 news website on...

Report: Qatar deports 45 Turkish nationals over Gülen links

Forty-five Turkish nationals were deported from Qatar for having links to the faith-based Gulen movement, which Ankara accuses of masterminding a July 15, 2016...

Bodies of infants miscarried in prison never returned to family

The whereabouts of the bodies of two unborn infants remain unknown, eight months after a miscarriage suffered by Nurhayat Yıldız in prison last October,...

Signs of life found in Tunceli from 1 million years ago

One of the oldest signs of life in human history, stone tools, have been found in the Pertek district of Tunceli province, CNN Türk...

Turkish FM appears on ‘Survivor’

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu appeared on the popular Turkish reality show “Survivor” on Thursday night. A video aired in the final installment of “Survivor...

20 officers arrested over Gülen links in Konya-based coup probe

Twenty military officers were arrested on Friday as part of a Konya-based investigation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in the military,...

CHP official given suspended sentence for insulting Erdoğan

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy provincial chairman of Batman province Hüseyin Yaşar has been handed down a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20...

Another post-coup victim abducted in broad daylight in Turkey

Murat Okumuş, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Şifa University Hospital in Izmir, has been abducted, marking the second forced...

Report: Turkey resumes illegal abductions, enforced disappearances

A new study has revealed that the Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of...

6 more academics detained in anti-Gülen operation

Six academics including a rector were detained at Namık Kemal University in Tekirdağ due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is...

Wife of slain captain refuses to shake hands with Turkish army chief

Sevim Üçöz, the widow of a captain who was killed in a terrorist attack in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, refused to shake hands with...

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