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Pianist arrested for insulting President Erdoğan

Turkish pianist Dengin Ceyhan was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in social media posts. He had been in detention since...

[UPDATE] Newly released HDP deputy Baluken arrested in Ankara

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris Baluken, who was recently released from jail, was arrested in Ankara on Tuesday after a Diyarbakır court...

Major says no one in Erdoğan assassination attempt trial has links to Gülen

One of 37 officers who are standing trial on charges of taking part in an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a...

6 students dancing to Kurdish music released after brief detention in Aydın

Six students from the Aydın Anadolu İmam-Hatip High School were released on Monday following a brief detention for dancing to Kurdish music in class. According...

Bus company offers free trips for ‘yes’ voters in referendum

The owner of the Metro Transportation company, controversial businessman Galip Öztürk, announced on Twitter on Monday that his company is offering free bus trips...

Coup commanders: We received orders from HQ and were trapped

Brig. Gen. Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş, the commander of the team that targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hotel in Marmaris on the night of a...

7 injured in natural gas explosion in İstanbul’s Küçükçekmece district

Seven people were injured, one of them seriously, in a natural gas explosion in the Küçükçekmece district of İstanbul on Monday. The explosion took place...

Belgian court hands down 15-year jail sentence to Erdal for Sabancı murder

A Belgian court on Monday sentenced far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) member Fehriye Erdal in absentia to 15 years in prison for the...

358 arrested, 785 detained last week over coup charges in Turkey

According to a tally by Turkeypurge.com, at least 358 people have been arrested and 785 others detained in the past eight days on charges...

Conflicting reports arrive from Koruköy, blockaded by Turkish military

Thirty-nine people have been detained, three killed and two lost in the village of Koruköy, which has been under military blockade since Feb. 11,...

HDP to apply to ECtHR for Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is preparing to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on behalf of Co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş...

20 former military officers detained over ByLock use

Twenty former Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) officers were detained on Saturday across 10 provinces over use of a smart phone application known as ByLock. The...

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