Turkish presidential candidate: TV staff fired for 10 second coverage of opposition rally

Turkish opposition İYİ Party leader and presidential candidate Meral Akşener on Monday said that staff members at a TV station who aired 10 seconds...

Turkish deputy PM Akdağ slams Germany over election campaign ban

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ on Monday slammed Germany for imposing a ban on campaigning for elections in Turkey, claiming that Turks living...

Turkish gov’t detains former police intelligence chief and judge wife over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police detained Zeki Güven, former intelligence chief of the Ankara Police Department, and his wife, Judge Sevda Güven, on Tuesday in a shopping...

İYİ Party leader’s advisor arrested by Turkish court over alleged Gülen links

Kerim Çoraklık, head of the communications team of the opposition İYİ Party and an advisor to the party’s leader, Meral Akşener, who was detained...

Paralysed Turkish teacher held in prison for 20 months on coup charges

İsa Kara, a 54-year-old teacher who was fired from his job after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has reportedly been kept in...

Turkish court rejects request for release of pro-Kurdish HDP presidential candidate Demirtaş

An Ankara high criminal court has rejected a request for the release of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş from jail...

Yazidis condemn Turkish gov’t for destruction of ‘condolence house’ in Nusaybin

Turkish authorities' destruction of a condolence house built by Yazidis in Kaleli village in the Nusaybin district of Mardin province who were forced to...

Turkish court imposes travel ban on CHP deputy Erdem following indictment

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem, who was not included on his party’s nomination list for the June 24 general...

Turkish courts sentence 106 military personnel to aggravated life imprisonment over July 15 coup...

Turkish courts sentenced 106 military personnel on Monday to aggravated life imprisonment over their alleged involvement in a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...

Turkish gov’t detains 527 people for alleged links to Gülen movement over last week

The Turkish government has detained 527 people across Turkey over the past week (May 14-May 21) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...
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