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Detention warrants issued for 40 at Interior Ministry over ByLock use

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 39 former and one active Interior Ministry staff members over the use of...

Heavy rain lashes İstanbul, gridlocks traffic

Traffic was gridlocked and cars were stranded on surface streets and highways on Tuesday due to heavy rains that inundated İstanbul. Minister of Forest...

32 detained in Diyarbakır for protesting dismissals under gov’t decree

Turkish police detained 32 members of the Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (KESK), some of whom were dismissed under a government decree issued...

HDP deputy given jail sentence for posting PKK operatives’ photos on social media

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy İbrahim Ayhan has been handed down a prison sentence of 15 months for posting the photos of...

ECtHR to give priority to cases of jailed HDP deputies

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will give priority to applications for the cases of 11 pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who...

PEN: Never recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time

PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, on Monday called on the Turkish government to stop abusing a state of emergency in force in...

1,800-year-old church falling into disrepair due to delayed restoration

An 1,800-year-old Orthodox church in Turkey’s Muğla province is poised to fall into ruin due to its delayed restoration and neglect. The Ministry of...

[UPDATE] Mother of three released after giving testimony

Yasemin Özkan, who gave birth to her third child last week by C-section and was served with a detention warrant immediately afterwards, was released...

Syriac association chair: I fear we will be forced to convert to Islam under gov’t decree

Yuhanna Aktaş, chairperson of the Mardin Syriac Unity Association, which was closed down in 2015, has said with irony that he is afraid Syriacs...

Journalist released after brief detention for criticizing ‘July 15 saga’

Yeliz Koray, managing editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper, was released from detention on Sunday after police took her into custody on Saturday night...

Post-coup crackdown in Turkey has torn families apart, CBC says

Canada's state-run CBC news website said Saturday, on the anniversary of a failed coup in Turkey last year, that thousands of families have been...

4 arrested over Gülen links in Trabzon-based coup probe

Four people were arrested by a court on Saturday as part of a Trabzon-based investigation targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, which is...

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