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Aydın man sentenced to 14 months in prison over insult to Erdoğan

Mehmet Şahin Işık, who was earlier briefly detained for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been given a 14-month jail sentence on...

Prosecutor allegedly tells wife of detainee to consider her husband dead

Cumhuriyet daily columnist Aydın Engin wrote on Wednesday that the wife of a detainee sent him a letter claiming that a prosecutor told her...

Another Turkish soldier killed in ISIL attack in Syria

One Turkish soldier was killed and five others were injured in a rocket attack perpetrated by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...

Poet Odabaşı receives suspended sentence for insulting Erdoğan

Poet and author Yılmaz Odabaşı on Wednesday received a suspended jail sentence of one year, eight months for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

CoE head calls for ending state of emergency before referendum

In his opening speech for the year 2017, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland urged an end to a state of...

‘Unskilled worker’ dismissed over alleged coup involvement

Worker Mehmet Fidan is among 367 people who were dismissed from state institutions with new government decrees – 682, 683, 684 and 685 –...

Turkey seizes all assets of businessman Akın İpek, mother Melek İpek

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the seizure of all assets of Turkish businessman Akın İpek and his mother, Melek İpek, over their alleged...

Turkish folk singer claims he is father of Adele

A Turkish folk singer and retired civil servant from the coastal town of Bodrum claims he is the father of famous British singer Adele. The...

Syrian Kurdish YPG disowns outcome of Astana talks

Syrian Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said on Monday that it would...

Turkey asks Swiss gov’t to pursue Erdoğan critics on social media

Turkey has requested help from Switzerland in pursuing critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing between...

143 alumni of ’68 generation say ‘no’ to executive presidency

One hundred forty-three members of an initiative established by the alumni of Turkey’s oldest political science faculty issued a statement on Monday criticizing a...

Court releases 4 out of 6 detained in connection to Adana dormitory fire

Four out of six dormitory administrators who were detained in connection to a fire at a dormitory in the southern province of Adana in...

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