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TV host slammed for cutting short program featuring opposition mayoral candidate

Journalist and television host Ahmet Hakan Coşkun has attracted widespread criticism for prematurely ending a program on Turkish broadcaster CNN Türk on Monday night during which he...

Lawyer for suspect in Karlov assassination case indicted over Gülen links

Erdem Semih Yıldız, the lawyer for Salih Yılmaz, who is standing trial in connection with the December 2016 murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, has...

[ANALYSIS] What happened to the 15 now-closed Gülen-linked universities and their assets?

The Turkish government issued a decree immediately after a failed coup in 2016 and ordered the closure of 15 universities affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan’s rhetoric against Kurds led AKP to lose İstanbul, deputy chair implies

The deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implied that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s belligerent rhetoric against Kurds during the campaign for...

Voters who looked like AKP supporters were not given proper ballot papers, claims Yıldırım

Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayoral candidate for İstanbul Binali Yıldırım, who lost in the March 31 local election, claimed that polling station officials did not...

Prosecutors seek to launch proceedings against 25 members of Turkish Parliament

The Turkish Parliament Speaker’s Office has received 44 summaries of proceedings drafted by Turkish prosecutors against 25 deputies including leaders of the two opposition parties, Turkish media...

Leading AKP official sues man who claimed cover-up in daughter’s death

Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Nurettin Canikli has filed a lawsuit against Şaban Vatan, the father of a teenager who died under suspicious circumstances...

Turkey seeks 249 suspects over claims of cheating on foreign ministry entrance exam

Authorities in Turkey have issued detention warrants for 249 people as part of an investigation into alleged cheating during exams to recruit staff for the country’s...

Local journalist sent to prison for insulting President Erdoğan

Mustafa Yayla, a newspaper journalist in Aydın province, has been sent to jail for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Diken news website reported on Sunday. A...

Ministry blocks prosecution of Turkish lawyer beaten by Erdoğan’s bodyguards

Turkey’s Justice Ministry denied permission to launch a prosecution against Sertuğ Sürenoğlu, a lawyer who in April was reportedly beaten up by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security...

One out of four young Turks intends to move abroad: report

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has released a report that claims a quarter of the country’s young population is interested in settling in other countries,...

ISIL is mobilizing in Turkey, interior minister claims

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Friday that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been extraordinarily active in Turkey in the...

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