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Turkey censors textbooks that include word ‘Pennsylvania’

As part of an ongoing purge of anything that could remotely be associated with Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed...

Man who turned Gülen’s poems into songs detained in Antalya

A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained...

 [OPINION] Embassies no longer safe in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The combination of both the deliberately ratcheted-up, vitriolic anti-Western diatribe by Turkey’s Islamist rulers and a surge in xenophobic incidents on the...

School principal arrested on charges of sexual abuse of 9 students

A high school principal in the Black Sea province of Bolu who was detained on suspicion of sexually harassing nine female high school students...

Retired military prosecutor warns TSK will stage coup if national unity not maintained

Ahmet Zeki Uçok, a retired military prosecutor with the Air Forces Command, has warned from his personal Twitter account that the Turkish Armed Forces...

Turkish police beat human rights lawyer while under detention

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past four days, was battered by police officers when he resisted efforts to handcuff...

Police detain SE district co-mayors from pro-Kurdish DBP

The co-mayors of Batman’s Gercüş district, Zeynep Oduncu and Abdülkerim Kaya from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), who had been replaced by trustees...

Indictment against HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ accepted by court

A court in eastern Van province on Thursday accepted an indictment against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ, who was detained by police...

Handcuffed Kurdish co-mayor refuses medical examination

Prominent Kurdish politician and Co-mayor of Mardin Ahmet Türk, who has been jailed since Nov, 24, reportedly refused to be taken to a hospital...

Jailed Demirtaş says punishment of HDP deputies part of vendetta

The imprisoned co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, said in testimony in court on Thursday that 10 deputies from his...

Erdoğan ranks 56th in Forbes 2016 list of most powerful people

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in 56th place in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s most powerful people, while the Russian president...

Turkey’s unemployment rate rises to 11.3 percent in September

Turkey's unemployment rate increased by 1 percent in September over the same period of 2015,reaching 11.3 percent, data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute...

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