US calls for ‘immediate’ release of Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala
The United States on Wednesday called on Turkey to release prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who was arrested for what the US called...
Turkish gov’t detains 25 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police detained 25 people, including university students who study in the faculties of engineering and medicine, on Saturday in Adana province over their...
Turkey orders arrest of 14 people over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of 14 out of 51 people detained on January 12 in an ongoing crackdown on the...
Trustees appointed to municipalities upon Erdoğan’s instructions, interior minister says
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said trustees in municipalities in Kurdish-majority southeastern Turkey were appointed by his ministry upon instructions from President Recep Tayyip...
Turkey bans access to 26 URLs, websites reporting on sentencing of DW journalist
A Turkish court on Tuesday blocked access to 26 websites and URLs, including news websites, blogs and social media accounts, for reporting on the...
Dismissed Kurdish mayor given lengthy jail sentence on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a prison sentence of seven years, six months to a former local co-mayor in southeastern Turkey who was...
Delegation from bar associations confirms torture by Turkish soldiers in Şemdinli
A delegation from the Diyarbakır, Van and Hakkari bar associations has confirmed as a result of interviews that villagers from Korgan village in the...
European rights court rules Turkey violated fair trial rights in dismissal cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Thursday that Turkey violated the right to a reasoned decision of four applicants who were...
Kılıçdaroğlu harshens rhetoric, says 10 million refugees need to be urgently expelled from Turkey
In an apparent bid to woo nationalist voters, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the soft-spoken main opposition leader and presidential candidate, has stepped up his rhetoric and...
19,653 Turkish citizens have fled to Greece since coup attempt in 2016: report
A total of 19,653 Turkish citizens have fled to neighboring Greece since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a report by the...
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