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Former HDP deputy Encü given 10-month jail sentence

Former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şırnak deputy Ferhat Encü has been handed down a 10-month jail sentence that was ultimately commuted to a...

Demirtaş again reaches out to people, this time by WhatsApp

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been in pretrial detention in Turkey since November 2016, has again reached out...

Jailed businessman and activist Kavala applies to ECtHR

Anadolu Kültür executive board chairman and jailed businessman Osman Kavala, who has spent seven months in jail, announced on Monday that he has filed...

[OPINION] The growing threat of the Erdoğan regime in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey, under an overzealous Islamist president with a strong xenophobic character, has become a source of tension for its allies and partners and...

Greece taking ‘greatest possible’ measures to protect ex-Turkish soldiers seeking asylum

Greece has put in place the “greatest possible” measures to protect eight Turkish commandos accused of being coup plotters after Ankara warned it was...

Report: AKP may have ordered 2015 ISIL attack on Ankara train station

A report by the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (EU INTCEN) viewed by the Ahval news website suggests that the Oct. 10, 2015 suicide bombing...

Gov’t escalates counterterrorism operations as elections in Turkey approach

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has escalated counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq’s Qandil Mountains and Sinjar region, which both host camps...

UN expresses concern for 2.5 mln in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib as fighting escalates

An escalation in fighting and airstrikes in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province leaves 2.5 million civilians with “no place else to go” within their shattered...

Demirtaş defies Erdoğan over Kobani, death penalty remarks

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) jailed presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş on Monday challenged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over remarks he made on the “Kobani...

Erdoğan says Demirtaş deserving of death penalty for role in 2014 protest deaths

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a Sunday rally criticized jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş, saying he would have approved...

Young mother briefly detained over Gülen links during husband’s funeral

Thirty-year-old Esra Çelik, the mother of a 2-year-old son, was detained by Turkish police on Sunday as she was attending the funeral of her...

CHP’s İnce files lawsuit seeking TL 100,000 in damages from Erdoğan

Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce has filed a lawsuit against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seeking TL100.000 in non-pecuniary damages due to...

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