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Turkey detains 16 staff members at Abdullah Gül University

Sixteen staff members of the Kayseri-based Abdullah Gül University, which bears the name of Turkey's former president, have been detained on the grounds that...

[UPDATE] Turkey detains 21 RTÜK employees in anti-Gülen operation 

Twenty-one people working for the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the Turkish state agency for monitoring, regulating and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts,...

Boğaziçi University academics call for annulment of decree canceling rector elections

Academics from one of Turkey's most prestigious universities, the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University, have called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to annul...

We don’t care about your red line, Turkish PM tells EP’s Schulz

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has lashed out at European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz, who harshly criticized the detention of a number of...

Gov’t to appoint trustee to Diyarbakır Municipality to replace arrested co-mayors

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to appoint a trustee to the Diyarbakır Municipality, whose co-mayors were arrested on terrorism charges on...

MHP leader calls on gov’t to join forces to reinstate death penalty

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli has called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to join forces to reintroduce the death...

Washington Post depicts Erdoğan as ‘building a strongman cult of personality’

A piece by the Editorial Board of The Washington Post on Oct. 31 described the effect of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on his...

Former CHP leader Baykal claims Erdoğan knew about sex tape plot targetting him

Former chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deniz Baykal said on Monday that then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had knowledge of...

Detained Canadian-Turkish imam granted lawyer after 3 months in solitary confinement

Davut Hancı, a Calgary-based Canadian-Turkish imam who was detained in July over links to Turkey's failed coup attempt on July 15, was granted a...

Police detain 7 students protesting detention of Cumhuriyet journalists

Police have detained seven students who were part of a crowd that gathered in front of the Cumhuriyet daily’s İstanbul headquarters to protest the...

Police take suspected academic’s son hostage, make him ask father to surrender

Police officers in Turkey’s Muğla province on Sunday detained the son of an academic who is suspected of having links to the Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan knew of coup attempt, prerecorded ‘address to nation,’ journalist claims

Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin said during an interview last week that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had information about a planned coup attempt prior to...

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