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Turkish jets pound PYD-YPG targets, killing around 200 militia fighters  

A Turkish air strike has killed as many as 200 fighters of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the YPG...

40 air force officers detained in post-coup purge in Konya

Forty officers serving at the 3rd Main Jet Airbase in Konya were detained on Thursday as part of post-coup operations targeting alleged followers of...

Government-appointed trustees in Diyarbakır’s Ergani Municipality resign

Two out of three trustees, appointed by Diyarbakır Governor's Office as acting mayor of Ergani district in September, resigned from their posts on Wednesday. Ramazan...

Rights watchdogs, press groups urge Turkey to end emergency abuses

Global human rights organizations as well as press freedom associations have urged the Turkish government to end its abuses against perceived critics committed under...

IHD: 40,573 rights violations, 1,481 dead in 9 months in Turkey

Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) stated on Wednesday that 40,573 rights violations occurred in the first nine months of 2016 in Turkey, the Cumhuriyet...

Turkish mob boss to gov’t: Why bother with diplomacy? We’ll kill Gülen, his followers

Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı implied in a letter to the Justice Ministry that his mafia network could kill Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...

Erdoğan admits influence over al Nusra in Putin request

In a move that came as confirmation of his influence on radical Syrian group the al-Nusra Front, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Russian...

Deputy PM says legal action taken against 115,000 on coup charges since July 15

Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş announced on Wednesday that prosecutors have taken legal action based on coup charges against a total of 115,000 people...

Pro-gov’t columnist claims Obama could be Gülen’s White House ‘imam’

Mehmet Barlas, a columnist from the pro-government Sabah daily who is known as a staunch supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed in his...

16 Türk Telekom employees detained over ByLock use

Sixteen employees at Turkish telecommunications giant Türk Telekom have been detained in the second wave of an operation launched against the company targeting alleged...

AKP official says Turkey may hold referendum on executive presidency in April

Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Hayati Yazıcı has said his party may bring a proposal for the introduction of an executive presidency...

1 militant killed during police raid on ISIL cell in Ankara

One suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant was killed during a police raid on a terrorist cell in Ankara's Etimesgut...

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