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Turkish prosecutor seeks detention of 219 military personnel over Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 219 active duty military members as part of an investigation into the...

Demirtaş’s attorney named lawyer of the week by The Times

Reyhan Yalçındağ Baydemir, one of the lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, a jailed Kurdish politician in Turkey, has been named lawyer of the week by...

846 Turkish firms have applied for debt restructuring to date: minister

Commerce Minister Ruhsar Pekcan has announced that applications from 846 Turkish companies for konkordato, a legal process for restructuring debt, have been accepted so...

Turkey’s central bank keeps interest rates unchanged

Turkey’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Thursday, as expected, easing investor concerns over an early loosening after inflation eased from...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s war on books and publishing houses

Abdullah Bozkurt The untold part of the story about the unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the crackdown, launched...

RTÜK adds ‘respect for the national will’ to its new code of ethics

Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), which has drafted a new code of ethics, has adopted “respect for the national will” as a...

Jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş defies court, accuses judges of partiality

Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in his defense on Wednesday challenged the court and accused...

Google announces ‘dollar’ ranked first among words searched by Turks in 2018

Popular search engine Google announced its annual national and global search statistics in which Turkey’s most searched word has been “dollar,” the Habertürk newspaper...

Turkish journalist honored by TIME: Democracy, press freedom will prevail

Can Dündar, a journalist who fled politically motivated prosecution in Turkey for the safety of Germany, is one among the many guardians fighting the...

Elderly professor given jail sentence for signing peace declaration

Professor Gençay Gürsoy, 79, was given a 27-month jail sentence by a high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesdayon terrorism charges resulting from signing...

Turkey has secret torture sites for interrogating Gülenists: report

As part of the massive purge and persecution of the faith-based Gülen movement on accusations of orchestrating a failed coup on July 15, 2016,...

AI Germany says Turkey, Russia violating human rights declaration: report

Amnesty International (AI) Germany’s secretary-general criticized Turkey and Russia in particular for violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the anniversary of the...

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