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Ankara slams US ambassador for statement on municipality takeover

The Turkish government has reacted harshly to a statement released by the US Embassy in Ankara on the appointment of trustees to municipalities in...

Erdoğan supports municipality step: Overdue

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday expressed support for the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities, 24 of them run by pro-Kurdish parties, saying...

PKK chief: If the state is ready, we could resolve the conflict in 6 months

Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has sent a message of reconciliation to Turkish authorities, calling for an immediate halt...

EP rapporteur: State of emergency turns into pressure tool against Kurds

  Following Turkish government’s replacement of elected mayors mostly in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday, Kati Piri, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey...

Car bomb in Van injures at least 48 people

One of the largest provinces in eastern Turkey, Van was struck by a terrorist attack Monday morning as the nation observes the religious festival...

PM: Gov’t to continue appointing administrators to Kurdish-run municipalities

Rebuffing public criticism sparked by a government decision to remove elected Kurdish mayors suspected of having links to militants, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...

Turkish military strikes 2 ISIL targets in Syria

The Turkish military over the weekend fired heavy artillery into Syria, destroying two terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targets, the...

HDP calls for mass protests against removal of Kurdish mayors

A government decision to remove elected Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Southeast has sparked an uproar across the region as People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson...

World intellectuals call on Turkish gov’t to end vendetta against freedom of expression

Fifty-four prominent international writers, academics, journalists and publishers have signed a statement calling on the Turkish government to end the vendetta it is waging...

Erdoğan’s advisor argues the US staged 9/11

  On the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, an advisor of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argued in a...

Altan brothers denied access to lawyers as long holiday begins

Turkey’s renowned critical columnists, brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, still have no access to their lawyer even after spending two days in detention,...

[BREAKING] Turkish-Jewish businessman İshak Alaton dies at 88

One of Turkey’s most highly renowned businessmen, İshak Alaton, passed away on Sunday. Alaton had founded Alarko Holding in 1954 along with his late partner...

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