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Turkey returns envoy to Berlin with improvement in diplomatic relations

Turkey returned its ambassador to Germany, Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu, to Berlin on Friday after a four-month absence from the embassy, a move that signals...

Prosecutor summons Kurdish deputies to testify

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday summoned six lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to testify over terrorism allegations, in...

200 arrested, 139 detained over coup charges on Thursday

At least 200 people were arrested while 139 others were detained on Thursday, according to Turkish news agencies. Police carried out the operations in 13...

DBP’s Külter appears in Kirkuk after 133-day controversy over whereabouts

Pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Şırnak provincial chairman Hurşit Külter, who went missing on May 27, appeared in Iraq's Kirkuk province on Friday, ending...

Council of Europe calls for end to emergency rule in Turkey as soon as possible

Human Rights Commissioner at the Council of Europe Nils Muiznieks has called on Turkish authorities to end in the shortest time possible a state...

Ankara: Shiite militias should not participate in Mosul operation

Turkey has said an operation against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Mosul should be carried out by local forces...

Newly released RedHack suspect says threatened with rape during detention

After he was kept behind bars for 12 days as part of an investigation into Turkish hacker group RedHack, Taylan Kulaçoğlu, an alleged member...

Award-winning author Murat Özyaşar released after 1 week in detention

Murat Özyaşar, an award-winning author and teacher who was detained by Turkish counterterrorism police on Oct. 1, was released on Friday, his wife Sibel...

Turkey arrests 33 members of Kimse Yok Mu aid foundation over Gülen ties

Thirty-three out of 40 members of the Kimse Yok Mu aid foundation who were referred to court on Wednesday were arrested on Friday as...

6 including suspected Yenibosna bomber arrested in Aksaray

İstanbul police have arrested six people including the suspected perpetrator of a motorcycle bomb attack in İstanbul’s Yenibosna neighborhood on Thursday that wounded 10...

Washington Post asks Twitter not to let itself become tool for President Erdoğan

Twitter should keep journalists’ accounts open and not become a tool of repression for Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, considering that laws are often used...

Gov’t appointed mayor assigns theater actors as municipal police

Deputy Governor Bilal Özkan, who replaced the mayor of Diyarbakır’s Sur district after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government appointed trustees to run...

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