Turkish rector who said obedience to Erdoğan an ‘Islamic obligation’ resigns
Ramazan Taşaltın, a university rector in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa, has resigned following reactions to remarks he made suggesting that "obeying Turkish...
Turkish court orders release of 6 jailed protesters in İmamoğlu protest case, but 7...
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release of six people out of 13 jailed over a protest marking the 100th day of the...
Turkish airstrike on Kurds in Syria kills 20: monitor
A Turkish airstrike on Monday killed 20 Kurdish security personnel and wounded dozens at a training center for police in Kurdish-held northeast Syria, Turkish...
Former Turkish Cypriot president among 42 facing entry ban to Turkey
Forty-two intellectuals, writers and politicians from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) including former president Mustafa Akıncı, all of whom are critical of...
HDP reports over 7,000 academics dismissed from Turkish universities since July 2016
More than 7,000 academics and staff have been sacked from Turkish universities since a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, and 70,000 students...
EU Turkey rapporteur calls İstanbul trustee showdown ‘surreal’ amid deepening crackdown on CHP
Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on Turkey, has described scenes at the İstanbul provincial headquarters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party...
2 pro-Kurdish parties in Turkey to vote ‘no’ on gov’t motion for cross-border operation...
Two pro-Kurdish parties have announced that they will vote against a parliamentary motion extending the government’s mandate to launch cross-border military operations in northern...
Turkish police detain mother of end-stage cancer patient jailed over Gülen links
The mother of Ayşe Özdoğan, a critically ill woman who suffers from a rare form of cancer and was sent to prison, was detained...
Turkish singer Atilla Taş detained to serve sentence for alleged links to Gülen movement
Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, was detained by police on Friday morning for the execution of...
İstanbul district mayor, 25 others arrested in expanding crackdown targeting CHP
Hasan Mutlu, mayor of the Bayrampaşa district of İstanbul from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was arrested late Monday along with 25 others in...
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