10 military cadets free after more than 5 years in prison on coup charges

Ten former military cadets who had been incarcerated in İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison for more than five years on coup charges have been released...

President Erdoğan vows not to send Syrians home, slams main opposition leader over anti-refugee...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday pledged not to send refugees who fled civil war in Syria and sought refuge in Turkey back...

Erdoğan says state of emergency to be extended when expires

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a state of emergency which went into effect in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt...

Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up

Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...

Turkish prosecutors open probe into pro-Kurdish HDP deputies for attending PKK funeral

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into two pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies for attending the funeral of a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist...
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Scholars to Erdoğan: Persecution of Professor Şık shows your disregard for academic freedom and...

In a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Professor Dina Rizk Khoury, president of the US-based Middle East Studies Association (MESA), urged that...

Turkish Deputy PM Şimşek: Rumors of Halkbank fine limit central bank’s effect on TL

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has claimed that a decision made by the Turkish Central Bank to increase interest rates only had a...

Ailing 83-year-old inmate wants to see his village before dying in prison: daughter

Mehmet Emin Özkan, an 83-year-old inmate who suffers from severe health problems, wants to see his village before he dies in prison, his daughter...

Prosecutors find no grounds to investigate mistreatment allegations of Kurdish woman

Prosecutors in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province have found no legal grounds to initiate an investigation into claims made by a 64-year-old woman of severe...

Turkish PM, sons, sue for alleged damages from Cumhuriyet over Paradise Papers

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım and his sons have filed a lawsuit for alleged damages in the amount of TL 500,000 against the Cumhuriyet...
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