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Human rights organizations urge Turkey to reverse extension of emergency rule

A letter written on Friday to Frederica Mogherini, EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, and Donald Tusk, president of the European...

CoE head calls for ending state of emergency before referendum

In his opening speech for the year 2017, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland urged an end to a state of...

AKP gov’t decrees contravene constitution, int’l law, legal experts say

Two government decrees issued by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on Saturday contravene Turkey's constitution and violate international law and agreements to...

10,158 more dismissed from state institutions in Turkey

As part of a post-coup-attempt purge, the Turkish government has dismissed 10,158 people from state institutions with new state of emergency decrees issued on...

15 media outlets closed down under new decrees

The Turkish government closed down 15 pro-Kurdish media outlets with new state of emergency decrees issued on Saturday. According to two new decrees, numbers 675...

University cancels panel on emergency rule, bases decision on emergency rule

An open forum that was to host a discussion about the legal basis of Turkey’s post-coup-attempt emergency rule at Ankara University’s law faculty has...

Deputy PM: No victims among Gülen movement

Rejecting claims of rights violations and torture, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş on Thursday said there were no victims of actions taken by the...

Turkish Presidency: Lira at record low not because of state of emergency, but seasonal fluctuation

Turkish Presidency spokesman İbrahim Kalın said a fall in the value of the Turkish lira, which slid to a record low after losing 0.65...

Top court rejects CHP’s petitions on KHKs citing lack of jurisdiction

Turkey's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected petitions filed by the country's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) requesting the cancellation of some controversial government...

Turkish government extends state of emergency for another 3 months

The state of emergency will be extended for three months starting from Oct. 19, said Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş following the weekly Cabinet...

Family tradition must be protected, says governor in defense of bar closure

  Kemal Yurtnaç, the governor of the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, defended a circular from his office on Wednesday that shut down all bars,...

CHP takes gov’t decree No. 669 to Constitutional Court for cancellation

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Tuesday took some articles of government decree No. 669, issued during a state of emergency declared...

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