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Jailed Brig. Gen. Arslan dies at military hospital in Ankara

Jailed Brig. Gen. Yavuz Ekrem Arslan, the former commander of the Manisa 1st Infantry Training Brigade, died on Monday at the Gülhane Military Hospital...

Kalın says Russia postponed Syria meeting due to Turkey’s objections

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesman, İbrahim Kalın, said on Sunday that Russia had postponed a meeting on Syria that was scheduled to take...

Detention warrants issued for 41 including comedian Demirci

The İzmir Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 41 people including Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci as part of an investigation into the...

Gülen condemns Manhattan terrorist attack

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has condemned the terrorist attack in Manhattan on Tuesday that killed eight and injured 11. "I am deeply shocked and...

HRW: Arrest of civil society leader in Turkey arbitrary, punitive

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday reacted to the arrest of civil activist and businessman Osman Kavala by a Turkish court, calling it an...

Historian Armağan sentenced to 15 months for insulting Atatürk

Historian Mustafa Armağan has been sentenced to one year, three months in prison for insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, in...

No detainees left in Özgür Gündem daily case

An İstanbul court has released İnan Kızılkaya and Kemal Sancılı, the last two journalists who were behind bars for alleged links to the outlawed...

12 journalists detained, 4 arrested, 11 imprisoned in Turkey in October

Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy and former journalist Barış Yarkadaş on Monday said that in October, 12 journalists in Turkey have been detained,...

31 more sought for detention over alleged Gülen links

The Samsun and Zonguldak chief public prosecutor’s offices have issued detention warrants for 31 people as part of a witch-hunt targeting people claimed to...

Turkish rights NGO says conditions for prisoners in poor health alarming

Prominent pro-Kurdish NGO the Human Rights Association (İHD) has stated that in Turkey there are 1,025 prisoners in poor health, 357 of whom are...

[OPINION] Erdoğan vigorously defends Turkish al-Qaeda group that has cells in Germany

Abdullah Bozkurt The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has saved an al-Qaeda-affiliated Turkish jihadist group that has been infiltrating diaspora groups in Germany and...

DROI chair calls on Turkey to reverse ongoing crackdown on civil society

Pier Antonio Panzeri, chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) in the European Parliament, welcomed the release of eight human rights activists by...

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