Turkish opposition leader ordered to pay damages for revealing Erdoğan family’s offshore holdings
An İstanbul court on Thursday ordered Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to pay TL 197,000 ($43,500) in damages over...
Turkish gov’t detains 9 active duty military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Tuesday detained nine military officers on active duty in 11 provinces across Turkey in a Zonguldak-based investigation as part of...
CHP members stabbed trying to halt attack on HDP campaign booths ahead of Turkish...
The members of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) members were stabbed on Saturday evening while trying to halt an attack on pro-Kurdish...
Preliminary autopsy of DBP official in Turkey’s Suruç shows 7 knife wounds to vital...
The cause of death of Esvet Şenyaşar, an official of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) who was murdered last week in a hospital...
Lawyers for Turkey’s jailed Kurdish presidential candidate apply to ECtHR
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
Turkish police use teargas to disperse İstanbul gays, transgenders following ban
Members of İstanbul’s gay and transgender community (LGBTI) gathered for a rally on Sunday instead of the annual pride march after they said the...
Turkish PM Yıldırım names July 15 coup attempt as ‘project’ he did not like
In remarks that fueled suspicions even further that the Turkish government was involved in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016,...
Stage actor Aydın briefly detained by Turkish police over social media messages
Outspoken stage actor Orhan Aydın was briefly detained in İstanbul on Tuesday over social media messages critical of the Turkish government and the president.
“I was...
CHP chairman ordered to pay $20K for allegedly insulting Turkey’s Erdoğan
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has been ordered by a Turkish court to pay TL 95,000 ($19,500)...
Turkey’s main opposition leader tweets caricature that caused arrest of 4 ODTÜ students
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday posted a caricature on Twitter called “Tayyipler Âlemi” (World of Tayyips), which...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...