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[VIDEO] AKP, CHP deputies almost come to blows over Israel on TV show

A debate on Turkish-Israeli relations on a Wednesday evening TV show almost turned into a fistfight between main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul...

[UPDATE] European Parliament delays visit over disagreement with Turkey

The European Parliament released a press statement on Wednesday announcing a delay in the scheduled visit to Turkey of leading members due to a...

Father of football star Şükür denied food for days, loses 40 kg in prison

The father of former Turkish football legend Hakan Şükür, Selmet Şükür, who was arrested on Aug. 12 in an investigation into a failed coup...

[UPDATE] Siirt Co-mayor Bakırhan arrested, two other co-mayors detained

Siirt Co-mayor from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Tuncer Bakırhan, who was detained on Wednesday morning along with two other Kurdish mayors, was arrested...

16 people including Islamic scholar Gülen’s cousin detained in İzmir

Sixteen people, including one of the cousins of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, were detained in the western province of İzmir on Wednesday as...

[OPINION] How Erdoğan family controls finance and economy in Turkey (2)

By Abdullah Bozkurt The keystone in the massive dragnet set up by the corrupt president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to rob the nation’s wealth is Prime...

Court releases jailed HDP Co-chair Demirtaş’s lawyer on probation

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş's lawyer Levent Pişkin, who was detained on Monday after visiting the HDP co-chair in prison, was...

Syrian President Assad calls Turkey’s Erdoğan ‘megalomaniac’ and ‘sick’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a megalomaniac and a sick person when asked about Erdoğan's comments on...

Erdoğan names PM advisor Ökem as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel

Turkey has appointed a foreign policy adviser to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, cementing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial,...

Turkey’s jailed intellectuals agree failed to see AKP’s dark side: We regret support we once gave Erdoğan

Fundamental rights are suspended; political opponents, intellectuals are jailed; media is censored. Same old same old in Turkey. The pervasive sense of fear, apprehension...

Erdoğan says Belgium a center for PKK militants and coup plotters

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday accused Belgium of being an important center for supporters of both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and...

Turkey detains three Kurdish mayors

Turkish police early on Wednesday detained one of the co-mayors of the eastern province of Siirt and the co-mayors of Tunceli province as part...

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