Indictment seeks up to 15 years jail for academics over Gülen links
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of from seven-and-a-half to 15 years for 15 academics from the İstanbul-based Marmara...
Justice minister slams EU countries for not extraditing alleged Gülen followers
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has criticized some EU countries for what he said was their failure to extradite alleged followers of the faith-based...
HDP Deputy And Spokesperson Bilgen and MP Botan detained again
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and the party’s spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen, who was detained at Ankara Esenboğa Airport on Sunday, has been detained...
Former TRT announcer detained as tries to flee from Turkey
Former TRT announcer Hamza Günerigök has been detained as he was trying to flee from Turkey to Greece in illegal ways. The government has...
HDP deputy İdris Baluken released
HDP deputy İdris Baluken, who was arrested on Nov. 4, 2016 in the framework of an investigation opened by a prosecutor in Bingöl province,...
Turkey seized 809 companies with worth $10 billion
Turkish government has effectively nationalized 809 companies by taking over their management or turning them over to the Treasury as of January 2017 as...
Police briefly detain businessman over declaring his ‘no’ vote in referandum
Police briefly detained a shopkeeper in Bursa on Sunday after an ‘informant citizen’ reported that he asked people to vote ‘no’ in a referandum...
Pro-Kurdish district mayor in Ağrı arrested on terror charges
A pro-Kurdish district mayor in the eastern province of Ağrı has been arrested as part of a terrorism probe.
Pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) mayor...
Pilgrims vow to vote ‘yes’ in referendum, curses at Gulenists at Kaaba
Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a group of Umrah pilgrims from Turkey publicly vows to vote ‘yes’ in a referendum on proposed constitutional...
Detention warrants issued for 15 at Air Forces Command over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 10 officers and five civilians at the Air Forces Command over their alleged links to the faith-based...
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