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Novelist Elif Shafak: Turks have never been so scared of words

“Jailing peace activists and writers is not new in our country,” wrote the linguist and author Necmiye Alpay this month, in a letter to...

Altan’s lawyer slams pro-gov’t newspapers over ‘manipulative’ report

Lawyer Ergin Cinmen, who represents jailed journalist and author Ahmet Altan, has criticized four pro-government newspapers, all of which ran stories on Monday showing...

RedHack leaks reveal rise of Turkey’s pro-government Twitter trolls

An article published by Internet newspaper The Daily Dot on Friday shows how the leaked emails of Berat Albayrak, the Turkish energy minister and...

Turkey’s annualized inflation at 7.28 percent in September

Official figures from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) show that the annualized rate of inflation in Turkey dropped to 7.28 percent in September from...

PKK attack kills 2 soldiers in Hakkari

Two soldiers were killed and one was wounded in a roadside bomb attack perpetrated by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in southeastern Hakkari province on...

İstanbul art gallery guests attacked by locals for drinking wine at opening

Three residents of İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district attacked people who had gathered in front of an art gallery for the opening of an exhibition on...

60 businessmen, foundation members detained in Bolu over Gülen links

Sixty businessmen and members of foundations affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement were detained in the Black Sea province of Bolu on Sunday due...

1 soldier killed, 5 injured in clashes with PKK in Hakkari

One soldier was killed and five others were injured when Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists on Sunday fired mortars at Turkish military members near...

Turkey detains another 15 academics over use of ByLock app

Fifteen academics who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were detained on Saturday as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

2 more Gülen relatives detained in Sakarya witch-hunt

Sakarya police on Saturday detained two more relatives of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen on charges of alleged membership in a terrorist organization. The Turkish government...

Turkish gov’t seizes furniture chain Alfemo over alleged Gülen links

A panel of trustees on Saturday was appointed to furniture chain Alfemo due to alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Report: Turkey detains 50 Nigerian students in Istanbul

More than 50 Nigerian students were detained on Friday in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the government, the Thisday news website has reported. According...

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