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MHP leader calls on gov’t to join forces to reinstate death penalty

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli has called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to join forces to reintroduce the death...

Washington Post depicts Erdoğan as ‘building a strongman cult of personality’

A piece by the Editorial Board of The Washington Post on Oct. 31 described the effect of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on his...

Former CHP leader Baykal claims Erdoğan knew about sex tape plot targetting him

Former chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deniz Baykal said on Monday that then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had knowledge of...

Detained Canadian-Turkish imam granted lawyer after 3 months in solitary confinement

Davut Hancı, a Calgary-based Canadian-Turkish imam who was detained in July over links to Turkey's failed coup attempt on July 15, was granted a...

Police detain 7 students protesting detention of Cumhuriyet journalists

Police have detained seven students who were part of a crowd that gathered in front of the Cumhuriyet daily’s İstanbul headquarters to protest the...

Police take suspected academic’s son hostage, make him ask father to surrender

Police officers in Turkey’s Muğla province on Sunday detained the son of an academic who is suspected of having links to the Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan knew of coup attempt, prerecorded ‘address to nation,’ journalist claims

Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin said during an interview last week that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had information about a planned coup attempt prior to...

HRW warns of deepening crackdown in Turkey

The detention of journalists from independent newspaper Cumhuriyet, the closure of the remaining Kurdish media outlets in the country and the jailing of two...

US expresses ‘deep concern’ over detention of Cumhuriyet columnists

As the Turkish government tightens its grip on the remaining few independent media outlets in the country, State Department Spokesperson John Kirby expressed concern...

TÜSİAD breaks silence, reacts to detention of Cumhuriyet columnists

Despite its overall low profile in the face of increasing pressure in the country, the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) issued a statement...

Man who shot CHP deputy chairman: I told him to speak politely about Erdoğan

The man who attacked Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan in Aydın on Saturday said in his testimony that he warned the...

3 soldiers die, 1 wounded in PKK attack

Three soldiers died and one was wounded on Tuesday in a terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province. Four PKK militants...

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