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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...

Four defendants given life sentences in Beşiktaş terrorist attack trial

A high criminal court in İstanbul on Friday handed down 47 consecutive aggravated life sentences and a prison sentence of 4,890 years to four defendants due...

Öcalan’s lawyers say further requests to meet with him unanswered

Lawyers for jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan on Thursday said that even though Turkish officials had declared a ban preventing meetings with their...

Another Turkish journalist attacked in Antalya after threats from local politician

İdris Özyol, a journalist who writes for the local Yeni Yüzyıl newspaper in southern Antalya province, was assaulted by unknown parties Wednesday evening in front of his...

Restrictions on purged professor’s passport removed for cancer treatment overseas

The Adana Governor’s Office on Thursday announced that restrictions imposed on the passport of Haluk Savaş, a psychiatry professor who was purged from his job and...

No official will be tried in relation to death of jailed Turkish teacher: prosecutor

A Turkish prosecutor has found no grounds for the prosecution of the relevant officials in the death of Halime Gülsu, a 34-year-old unemployed teacher who died...

Turkish minister: Ban preventing Öcalan from meeting with lawyers lifted

Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül announced on Thursday that a ban preventing the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from meeting...

Happiness level among Turkish youth the lowest in 16 years

A total of 55.4 percent of the young people in Turkey describe themselves as happy, the lowest figure in the past 16 years, according to data...

AKP mayor implies İstanbul mayoral candidate İmamoğlu has Greek roots

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayor of İstanbul’s Esenler district has said Greeks were very happy about the election of Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul mayoral...

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