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Turkish police detain 2 Kurdish co-mayors in southeastern Turkey

As part of an expanding crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), two HDP district co-mayors who were recently removed from their...

Study finds Turkish youth less pious than expected in last decade

Although Turkey’s Islamist government has been trying to increase the level of piousness in the society, the number of young people fulfilling their daily religious duties...

Davutoğlu files paperwork to establish rival party to Erdoğan’s AKP: report

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, once a close ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, applied on Thursday to establish a breakaway political party...

64 detained as part of operations targeting Gülen movement members

Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained 64 individuals across the provinces of İstanbul, Adana, Tokat and İzmir due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...

Turkey’s Armenian church unveils new patriarch in controversial election

Turkey’s Armenian community on Wednesday voted in Bishop Sahak Maşalyan as its new patriarch, in an election critics say was overshadowed by Turkish government intervention. Delegates elected...

Davutoğlu and team to declare assets prior to establishment of new party

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and his team will publicly declare their assets prior to the establishment of a new party, the Euronews website reported. Davutoğlu...

HDP says 6,000 party officials arrested since 2015

A total of 15,530 members of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been detained and 6,000 of them arrested since 2015, according to a report...

Overwhelming majority of Turkish LGBTs cannot reveal identity in workplace: study

An overwhelming majority of Turkish LGBTs cannot reveal their sexual orientation in the workplace -- 95.6 percent in the public sector and 83.6 percent in the...

Amnesty poll shows 82 percent of Turks believe human rights are under attack

More than 82 percent of the Turkish public thinks that people’s rights and freedoms are being violated, according to a poll conducted by MetroPoll at the...

Turkish ministry’s meddling in election may lead to end of Armenian Patriarchate: deputy

The Turkish Interior Ministry's meddling in the election of a new Armenian patriarch may lead to the end of the İstanbul Armenian Patriarchate, Garo Paylan, an...

Erdoğan implies Nobel laureate Pamuk is a ‘terrorist’

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday implied that Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is a “terrorist,” saying that the Nobel committee gave the prize to a “terrorist...

Despite the law, 2 more pregnant women arrested in Turkey over Gülen links

Although Turkish laws call for postponement of the arrest of pregnant women, Turkish courts on Monday sent two pregnant women to jail due to their alleged...

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