Turkey’s Ankara municipality changes street names recalling Fethullah Gülen
The capital city of Ankara has changed the names of streets and avenues that bear the last name of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen,...
Erdoğan’s advisor: NATO behind all coups, Turkey must review membership
Yalçın Topçu, a key advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Monday said NATO was behind all coups in Turkey, stating that...
Turkey’s Erdoğan thinks New York jury will find Atilla not guilty in Iran-sanctions case
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a trial in the US has shown that Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive of Turkey’s state-owned...
83-year-old retired general faces serious health risks in prison
Nilgül Doğan, the wife of 83-year-old retired general Çetin Doğan, has announced that her husband’s incarceration has led to a significant deterioration of his...
Turkey starts to demolish buildings in Diyarbakır’s historical Sur district amid tension
Demolition of the building harmed during the clashes between Turkish security forces and the militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been...
New report sheds light on algorithm used to persecute alleged members of Gülen movement...
More than 13,000 Turkish military personnel have been dismissed since July 2016 on the basis of an algorithm used by the authorities to assess...
12 former central bank employees arrested over ByLock use
Twelve former employees of the Turkish Central Bank who were detained in Ankara last week due to their use of a smart phone application...
Report: 80 lawyers convicted, 572 lawyers jailed, 1,506 lawyers prosecuted by Turkish gov’t since...
Turkish government has prosecuted at least 1,506 lawyers, jailed 572 of them and sentenced at least 80 lawyers to long period of imprisonment as...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejects CHP application to cancel 13 gov’t decrees
Turkey’s Constitutional Court in a unanimous vote on Friday rejected a petition filed by the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) to abrogate 13...
Turkish government detains 78 lawyers over alleged links to Gülen movement on Wednesday
Turkish police has detained 78 lawyers in an investigation as part of Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of...
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