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Judge breaks off coup hearing after complainants throw water bottles at defendants

The presiding judge at a hearing in Ankara on Thursday, part of a trial of key suspects in a failed coup in 2016, broke...

Another police chief jailed over Gülen links dies in Turkish prison

Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...

US Embassy says reports on Washington sending tanks, ammunition to Syria erroneous

The US Embassy in Ankara said on Thursday that reports in the Turkish media claiming Washington has sent tanks and hundreds of truckloads of...

34 women, 17 children killed by men in Turkey in July

A total of 34 women and 17 children were killed by men in Turkey during the month of July, Gazete Şûjin reported on Thursday. According...

RTÜK fines TV channel for showing Gülen linked book on shelf

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined the Kanal D television channel for airing footage that shows a book linked to the...

ECtHR rejects release request of jailed Turkish hunger strikers

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday rejected Turkish hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça’s request to order the Turkish...

17 Turkish nationals ask for asylum in Greece, say their lives in danger

Seventeen Turkish nationals who entered Greece illegally through the island of Rhodes have asked for asylum, saying their lives are in danger in Turkey,...

HRW to Turkey: Investigate abductions, disappearances in Ankara

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and possibly enforced disappearances...

625 more members resign from MHP to form new party with expelled Akşener

A total of 625 members of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) Kocaeli and Bursa provincial branches have resigned to join former MHP deputy Meral...

Jailed Halkbank executive demands separate trial from Reza Zarrab in US court

  Turkey’s Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was arrested in New York City in late March as part of an investigation into...

[UPDATE] Turkish gov’t names new top land, air and navy commanders

The Supreme Military Council (YAŞ), which convened at the Çankaya Palace on Wednesday, reshuffled land, naval and air force commanders and decided to designate...

Opposition party CHP visits pro-Kurdish HDP’s ‘Justice Watch’

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday attended a “Justice Watch” launched by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a...

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