19 lawyers detained in Kahramanmaraş over alleged Gülen links
The Kahramanmaraş Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 24 lawyers in the province due to their alleged links to the...
İHD deputy chairman detained on terror charges
Human Rights Association (İHD) Deputy President Raci Bilici has been detained on terror charges in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.
Bilici, who is also the...
Body of man wanted for alleged Gülen links found in Maritsa River
The dead body of Murat Zümre, a computer engineer at the 15th Missile Base Command in İstanbul who was dismissed from his post due...
Former deputy PM says Arınç, Gül silent on referendum for fear of AKP gov’t...
Ertuğrul Yalçınbayır, previously a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy and deputy prime minister, said on Tuesday that former Minister Bülent Arınç and...
Turkey’s PM Yıldırım says Dutch PM apologized for detention of diplomats
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım in a live TV interview on Tuesday night said his Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, had apologized for the detention...
Turkish FM: We’ll take steps in refugee deal if visa liberalization not realized
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Tuesday that the government could take steps against a readmission agreement, or refugee deal, between...
Interior Minister Soylu targets pro-Kurdish HDP, signals new operations
Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has targeted members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and signaled new operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...
Int’l human rights bodies warn ECJ ruling over headscarf ban ‘panders to prejudice’
International human rights organizations have warned that a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that EU companies can ban employees from wearing religious...
Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu’s attacks and humiliation targeting EU persist
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said on Tuesday that the European Union (EU) is falling apart. He said the EU was founded in an...
German state Saarland seeks to ban Turkish political rallies
The governor of German state Saarland says that she wants to prevent Turkish government officials from holding political rallies there before Turkey’s constitutional referendum.
Governor...
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