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IPI board member, journalist Gürsel detained in İstanbul

One of the most highly acclaimed journalists in Turkey, Kadri Gürsel, who is a board member of International Press Institute, was detained in İstanbul...

Detained Cumhuriyet journalists barred from seeing lawyers for 5 days

Journalists detained as part of an operation against the Cumhuriyet daily will not be able to see their lawyers for five days, according to...

[UPDATE] Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief, columnist detained, detention warrant issued for Can Dündar

Turkey's secularist Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and columnist Güray Öz were detained after police raided their residences early on Monday. A detention warrant was...

Turkish PM says Turkey will be divided if presidential system not adopted

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Sunday that there is a need to switch to presidential system in Turkey and there is a...

Turkey’s pro-gov’t columnists, media target former Zaman journalists

Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government journalist with 435,000 followers on Twitter, has targeted Hasan Cücük, a former Zaman daily reporter in Copenhagen, and threatened to...

AKP official says proposal on executive presidency may be in Parliament in 10 days

Mustafa Şentop, head of the parliamentary Constitution Commission and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy, has said the government might bring constitutional...

Latest decrees include controversial measures violating int’l law, agreements

Two government decrees that were issued by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on Saturday have attracted widespread criticism for including measures that...

Putschist general denies offering to put army chief in touch with Gülen by phone

Brig. Gen. Hakan Evrim, one of the military members who took part in an abortive coup on July 15, has denied claims by Turkey's...

[UPDATE] Diyarbakır Co-mayors Kışanak and Anlı, former deputy Ata arrested

Diyarbakır Co-mayors Gülten Kışanak and Fırat Anlı, and former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) deputy Ayla Akat Ata, who was detained on terrorism charges...

Gov’t accused of eliminating all dissidents under pretext of anti-Gülen fight

The fact that hundreds of members of a left-wing trade union are among individuals purged from state institutions by the latest government decrees has...

Judges association says emergency rule paved way for authoritarian regime in Turkey

The Dutch association Judges for Judges has said emergency rule, which was declared in Turkey following a failed military coup attempt on July 15,...

Turkey revokes permanent press cards of two prominent journalists

The press cards of veteran journalists Hasan Cemal and Doğan Akın have been cancelled by the Prime Ministry's Directorate General of Press and Information...

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