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Fashion designer receives suspended sentence due to Twitter message

Fashion designer Barbaros Şansal has been handed down a suspended prison sentence of six months, 20 days due to a Twitter message he posted...

Closed DİHA journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır

Zekeriya Güzüpek, former head of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA’s Kurdish service, were...

3 soldiers, 2 PKK members killed in Diyarbakır

Three Turkish soldiers and two terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed during clashes in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Wednesday,...

Alleged head of ISIL in Turkey detained in İstanbul

Halis Bayancuk, also known as Abu Hanzala, the alleged Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader in Turkey, was detained in İstanbul...

27 academics expelled from İzmir-based university detained over Gülen links

Twenty-seven academics who were previously expelled from the İzmir-based 9 Eylül University through government decrees have been detained due to alleged links to the...

Detention warrant issued for HDP spokesperson Baydemir

A detention warrant has been issued for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir, Turkish media reports said on Tuesday. It...

Turkey grants consular access to jailed German journalist Tolu

Turkish authorities granted permission to German consular officers to visit German-Turkish journalist Meşale Tolu, who has been under arrest in pre-trial detention since April...

AKP forms new executive body under Erdoğan’s leadership

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) held an executive body meeting on Monday and named the party's new administrators under the leadership of...

French journalist ends hunger strike after meeting with embassy official

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province and went on a...

[UPDATE] HDP deputy Konca arrested shortly after release from prison

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court on May 3 after spending five months in...

Men get 13.5 years for interrupting mobilization call from mosque on coup night

E.T. and his brother-in-law E.K., two men from Sivas who allegedly interrupted a call from a minaret by a local imam encouraging people to...

NBA’s Kanter tells Turkish government ‘You can’t catch me’

Turkish NBA star Enes Kanter on Friday tweeted contempt for media reports that Turkey’s government had issued a warrant for his arrest, according to...

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