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New gov’t decree paves way for sale of companies seized by state from critics

A new government decree issued on Thursday makes possible the sale of companies seized by the state as part of an ongoing witch hunt...

AKP deputy chairman says 820 party members investigated over links to Gülen movement

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Erol Kaya said on Tuesday that investigations have been launched into 820 party members over links...

New gov’t decree authorizes RTÜK to transfer licenses of shuttered media outlets

According to a government decree issued on Thursday, Turkey's media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), will be able to transfer the broadcasting...

CHUV report: People sheltering in Cizre basement first killed, then burned

A report by scientists from the Vaudois University Hospital Center (CHUV) in Switzerland showed that residents who took shelter in the basement of a...

Erdoğan fails to deter Trump from arming Kurds in ISIL fight

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a phone call on Tuesday, attempted to persuade US President Donald Trump to abandon a proposal backed by...

24 courses in single faculty left without instructors after last purge

Following the most recent decree issued by the Turkish government on Tuesday night that purged a large number of civil servants, no professors are...

Famous Turkish comedian protests purge of academics

Cem Yılmaz, one of Turkey’s most celebrated comedians, reacted adversely to an ongoing purge in the country that most recently dismissed 330 academics from...

9 suspects arrested in connection to ISIL’s Reina attack

A Turkish court on Wednesday arrested nine out of 10 suspects detained over an attack carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and...

YÖK says lists of to-be-purged academics determined by universities

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has said the names of academics who are purged from universities through controversial government decrees are determined by the...

Erdoğan says 18-year-old deputies will be exempted from military service

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has suggested that when a constitutional amendment allowing individuals as young as 18 years of age to be elected to...

HDP deputy Zana released on judicial probation after brief detention

As a crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) continues, HDP Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana was released after...

[UPDATE] 4 soldiers killed, 13 injured in ISIL attack in Syria’s al-Bab

Four Turkish soldiers were killed and 13 others were injured in an attack perpetrated by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists in...

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