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İstanbul police disperse pride march with pepper spray, rubber bullets

Turkish police on Sunday disrupted an LGBTI+ pride march in İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district, dispersing the crowd with pepper spray and rubber bullets, according to the BBC...

Mob attacks Syrian refugees over child abuse claim in İstanbul

A large group gathered in İstanbul’s İkitelli neighborhood reportedly in reaction to the alleged abuse of a small girl, in a protest that led to looting,...

4 ODTÜ students detained hours before graduation ceremony

Four students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) were taken into police custody on Sunday, hours before the school’s graduation ceremony, which is usually a venue...

Former PM Davutoğlu calls on AKP to reassess values after İstanbul defeat

Former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu called on ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) management to reassess its values after a stunning defeat in a mayoral election...

Turkey’s state of emergency commission has approved 6,000 out of 77,900 purge victim applications reviewed

A commission set up by the government to look into complaints from individuals who were adversely affected by government decrees during a two-year-long state of emergency...

Website entry exposes Constitutional Court bias against Gülen-related cases

A purged civil servant has discovered an entry on the web page of Turkey’s Constitutional Court that points to a possible predisposition against the cases of individuals...

Turkey orders detention of 27 sailors from Naval Forces

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 27 sailors from Turkey’s Naval Forces as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers...

Editor of gov’t-critical news website detained for insulting Turkish president

Ali Ergin Demirhan, editor of the sendika.org news website, a media outlet critical of the Turkish government, was detained on Friday on accusations of insulting Turkey’s president,...

Officials who conducted Turkish intelligence trucks probe in 2014 get lengthy prison sentences

A Turkish court on Friday handed down lengthy jail sentences to the prosecutors and military officers who worked on a 2014 investigation into trucks operated by...

Secret investigation under way into opposition leader over Gülen links: lawyer

Turkish prosecutors have been conducting an investigation into İyi (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener since 2016 due to her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...

Kavala’s participation in 2013 Gezi protests not a crime, Turkey’s chief justice says

Zühtü Arslan, the chief judge of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, has said he does not believe philanthropist Osman Kavala’s participation in the 2013 Gezi Park protests alone can...

Top officials at İstanbul Municipality resign as new mayor takes office

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Secretary-general Hayri Baraçlı announced on Friday that he and his seven assistants and legal advisor have all resigned in order to allow the city’s...

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