Turkish Parliament strips jailed HDP deputy Aydoğan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament has stripped jailed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy Nursel Aydoğan of her parliamentary status after a sentence of 56...
Wikipedia challenges access ban at Turkey’s top court
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken a court decision to ban access to the website that went into effect on April 29 to Turkey’s Constitutional...
Allegedly drunk police driver who killed Yıldırım brothers in Silopi arrested
A Şırnak court has ordered the arrest of a police officer who crashed an armored vehicle into a house in the province’s Silopi district,...
Detention warrants issued for 110 military officers over alleged Gülen links
The Tekirdağ Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for a total of 110 military officers as part of an investigation against the...
COMMENTARY — Uzbek jihadists worked with Turkey’s intelligence under Erdoğan’s rule
By Abdullah Bozkurt
When Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan set his eyes to topple Bashar al-Assad and replace his regime with a proxy Islamist...
British tourists ejected from Airbnb flat by Turkish police during dawn raid in İstanbul
Two British tourists in İstanbul were forced to leave their Airbnb apartment by seven police officers during a dawn raid in a dispute over...
Academic Gülmen in critical condition as the hunger strike hits 61st day in Turkey
Academic Nuriye Gülmen suffered from low blood pressure on May 8, or the 61st day in a hunger strike she has been staging along...
University bans LGBT march under post-coup emergency rules in Turkey
Turkey's İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ) has banned LGBT march, scheduled to be held by a number of student clubs, due to post-coup emergency rules...
Autistic child injures self to express grief over detention of Turkish father in Malaysia
The ten-year-old autistic son of İhsan Arslan, a Turkish businessman who was detained in Malaysia last week, has been physically harming himself to express...
Lawyer candidate faces ‘early dismissal’ over alleged Gülen links
Turkey's Justice Ministry has been seeking to prevent a would-be lawyer from getting his/her license as he/she has been undergoing an investigation over alleged...
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