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Gov’t appointed mayor assigns theater actors as municipal police

Deputy Governor Bilal Özkan, who replaced the mayor of Diyarbakır’s Sur district after the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government appointed trustees to run...

Communist Party member arrested for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan

Yücel D., reportedly a member of the Communist Party of Turkey and Marxist Leninist Movement (TKP/ML), was arrested in Çorum province on Thursday over...

Baghdad seeks Security Council session over Turkish military presence in Iraq

Iraq has requested an emergency UN Security Council session over the presence of Turkish troops at the Bashiqa army base north of Mosul in...

Policemen who confronted putschist solders sacked in latest police force purge

A number of police officers who confronted putschist soldiers on July 15, when a group of rogue soldiers attempted to topple the government by...

Minority Rights Group: Turkey’s closure of TV stations violates freedom of expression

The closure of IMC TV and other independent and minority media channels by the Turkish government is a grave violation of the right to...

Turkey deports 5 Yemeni students for studying at Gülen-linked university

Turkish authorities have deported five Yemeni students at universities that authorities have recently shut down over links to US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who...

Turkey bans math textbooks due to questions including Gülen’s initials

Turkey’s paranoia over the Gülen movement has reached new heights with the government banning mathematics textbooks due to questions involving the initials of Islamic...

Top court prosecutor calls for overturning acquittal of 7 Balyoz suspects

The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals, which has released its opinion on former military members who stood trial for...

47 including military officers, deputy governor arrested in anti-Gülen investigations

Forty-seven people including military officers and a deputy governor were arrested in separate operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement in İstanbul and Ankara on...

Nigeria gives Turkey 7-day ultimatum for release of its 50 students

The Nigerian House of Representatives has given the Turkish government a seven-day ultimatum to release 50 Nigerian students who were recently detained in Turkey...

Motorcycle bomb attack near İstanbul police station injures 5

A violent explosion caused by a motorcycle loaded with explosives took place near a police station in İstanbul’s Yenibosna neighborhood in the afternoon hours...

PM Yıldırım says Turkey’s military presence in Iraq to continue

One day after Iraqi Prime Minister warned Turkey that it may cause a regional war by maintaining a military presence in Iraq, Turkey's Prime...

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