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YÖK says lists of to-be-purged academics determined by universities

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has said the names of academics who are purged from universities through controversial government decrees are determined by the...

Erdoğan says 18-year-old deputies will be exempted from military service

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggested that when a constitutional amendment allowing individuals as young as 18 years of age to be elected to...

HDP deputy Zana released on judicial probation after brief detention

As a crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) continues, HDP Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana was released after...

[UPDATE] 4 soldiers killed, 13 injured in ISIL attack in Syria’s al-Bab

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and 13 others were injured in an attack perpetrated by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists in...

Investigation launched into imam endorsing ‘yes’ vote in referendum  

Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate has launched an investigation into an imam in İstanbul who recently called on mosque attendees to vote "yes" in a...

CIA Director Pompeo to visit Turkey on Thursday to discuss security issues

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Mike Pompeo, who was nominated to the post by the new US President Donald Trump, will pay his first foreign...

Half of 330 academics purged by latest gov’t decree signed peace declaration

One hundred fifteen out of 330 academics who were dismissed from their jobs by a government decree issued on Tuesday are signatories of a...

Trump reiterates Turkey is US’s strategic partner, important NATO ally in call with Erdoğan

US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a phone call on Tuesday that Turkey is a strategic partner of...

3,126 years in prison, 18 life sentences in total sought for 55 pro-Kurdish HDP deputies

Turkish authorities are seeking prison sentences of up to 3,126 years in total and 18 life sentences for 55 deputies of the pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

12-year-old dies of cancer after denied departure from Turkey for treatment

A 12-year-old child has died of brain cancer several months after Turkish border agents seized his and his parents’ passports at İstanbul Atatürk Airport,...

[VIDEO] Another woman who just gave birth detained over links to Gülen movement

Filiz Y., a 30-year-old woman who gave birth at Mersin City Hospital last night, has been detained over alleged links to the Güen movement,...

Jailed police intelligence chief: Erdoğan ordered us to investigate Oda TV

Former police intelligence chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer said in a hearing on Tuesday that it was then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who ordered the...

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