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Turkish military defectors say they are secular Kemalists, fear torture if extradited

Eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July have said they are secular Kemalists and have...

Altan brothers asked about Sledgehammer coup plot during police interrogation

On the 11th day of their detention, journalist and author brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan were asked about a suspected military coup plan...

Another 76 detained in Turkey over use of ‘suspected’ mobile app

Seventy-six public officials who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, have been detained as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

Mavi Marmara flotilla organizer: Turkey in weak position with Israel

Bülent Yıldırım, president of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in...

AKP deputy: Naive to think ‘FETÖ’ has not infiltrated our party

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Sakarya deputy Ayhan Sefer Üstün said on Tuesday that there should also be a cleansing within the...

Erdoğan expands his witch-hunt against Gülen movement to UN General Assembly

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan expanded his witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement to the United Nations General Assembly as he called on world leaders...

Altan’s lawyers: Stories of ‘evidence’ in Turkish media are distorted

  Following news stories that appeared in the Turkish media on Tuesday reporting on “evidence” of the Gülen movement affiliation of detained columnist Professor Mehmet...

Court dismisses compensation case filed by Gülen against Erdoğan

An Ankara court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit for damages filed by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen against the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip...

45 students sentenced to 10 months for Erdoğan protest

Forty-five students at Middle East Technical University received 10-month jail sentences for participating in a protest while then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was visiting...

Syria, Iraq cross-border motion sent to Parliament for approval

A motion seeking to extend the mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct military operations in Iraq and Syria for another year has...

48 detained as anti-Gülen operations extend to PETKİM, KOSGEB

Forty-eight people were detained in police operations targeting Turkey’s biggest petrochemicals company, PETKİM, and the Small and Medium Industry Development Organization (KOSGEB) on Tuesday...

HDP Co-chair Demirtaş calls on gov’t, PKK to silence weapons

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has called on the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to...

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