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Turkey set to build 174 new prisons to make space for coup purge

An unprecedented increase in the number of people jailed as part of Turkey’s ever-expanding purge following a July 15 coup attempt has created the...

US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee: Charges against Gülen not credible

US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Dana Rohrabacher said during a hearing titled "Turkey after the July Coup Attempt" in the House Foreign Affairs...

Gov’t media targets US’s Bass for Artvin visit: Provocation

US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass, who has been under fire from the Turkish government for a recent embassy statement on the appointment of...

Opposition leader slams arrests of journalists, writers in Turkey

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has strongly criticized the arrest of journalists and writers, lambasting the authorities for preventing them...

16 PKK members killed in Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq

A total of 16 suspected members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed by airstrikes near the border with Iraq over...

EU official says visa talks with Turkey far from complete

President of the European Union’s executive body, the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said even after a solution is reached after long negotiations with Turkey...

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup [OPINION – ÖZCAN KELEŞ*]

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup* Özcan Keleş** Gareth Jenkins once criticized Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of...

Aid trucks stranded in Syria amid fragile truce

Two convoys of aid bound for Aleppo were stranded on the Syrian side of the border after passing through Turkey’s Cilvegözü border gate as...

German diplomatic missions in Turkey temporarily closed amid fears of attack

The German Embassy in Ankara and German Consulate General in Istanbul, along with the country’s other consular offices in Turkey, have been temporarily closed...

Minister says gov’t will take over 65 Gülen-linked schools abroad

Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said the Maarif Foundation, established by the government to deal with Turkish schools abroad, is planning to take over...

Deputy PM rules out new settlement talks with PKK

Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak, commenting on a recent message sent by jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, has...

Gov’t says CHP can’t take post-coup decrees to Constitutional Court

Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said it is technically impossible for the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) to take decrees issued during...

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