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[OPINION] Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate

OPINION | ABDULLAH BOZKURT The use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence...

CHP’s İnce pledges to bring ‘that kick’ to justice

Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharram İnce on Sunday visited a coal miners’ memorial in Soma, Manisa province, where the deadliest coal mining...

Erdoğan rejects Bahçeli’s pre-election general amnesty proposal

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday rebuffed a proposal for general amnesty floated by nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli, his ally for the June...

Turkish public broadcaster covers gov’t bloc for 37 hours, opposition only 3 hours

With campaigns in full swing for snap parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey on June 24, public broadcaster TRT covered the election alliance of...

HRW calls on May to speak out on human rights during Erdoğan visit

David Mepham, the UK director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to use the visit of Turkish President...

Court releases jailed journalists Bulaç and Özdemir in Zaman daily trial

A Turkish court ruled on Friday to release jailed journalists Ali Bulaç and Mehmet Özdemir, who are among 11 former columnists and editors of...

Foreign Ministry: Capture of ISIL officials in Iraq facilitated by arrest in Turkey

A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said a senior member of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who had been hiding...

Walls on Turkish border also for Europe, says interior minister

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Friday claimed that building walls on its borders is not only for the benefit of Turkey but also...

US senator tells Turkey: Take a cue from North Korea, release American hostages

Senator James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, on Thursday gave a speech on the Senate floor lambasting Turkey for the unjust imprisonment and bogus...

Petition submitted to election board to halt presidential bid of HDP’s Demirtaş

A petition was submitted to Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Friday demanding the cancellation of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) candidate Selahattin Demirtaş’s...

OSCE’s Désir calls on Turkey to release Zaman journalists

Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has called on Turkey to release...

Detention warrants issued for 300 more military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office on Friday issued detention warrants for 211 active duty, 89 former military members of varying ranks as part...

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