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Alleged mastermind of 2013 terror attack in Turkey receives 53 aggravated life sentences

A Turkish court has sentenced Yusuf Nazik, the alleged mastermind of a 2013 terrorist attack in Reyhanlı, southeastern Turkey, to 53 aggravated life sentences, the Diken news...

Ruling AKP launches social media campaign to counter opposition hashtag for İstanbul election

Turkey’s ruling party has launched a social media campaign to counter the opposition’s highly popular Twitter hashtag #herşeyçokgüzelolacak (Everything will be OK), claiming that the İstanbul election...

Turkish composer says he was denied award for supporting opposition hashtag

Renowned Turkish composer and musician Cahit Berkay has revealed that he was denied an award for which he was nominated, claiming that the move was due...

Left-wing DSP mayoral candidate withdraws from İstanbul election re-run

An opposition candidate announced on Sunday he was withdrawing from next month’s re-run of the mayoral election in Istanbul in a move likely to aid the...

3 Turkish journalists detained overnight in İstanbul

Turkish police on Saturday night detained journalists Zeynep Kuray, İrfan Tunççelik and Canan Coşkun, the Diken news website reported. Coşkun, who works for Mediascope TV, spent the night...

Turkish academic from French university arrested for terrorist propaganda

Ahmet Tuna Altınel, a mathematician from France’s Lyon University, was arrested by a Turkish court in Balıkesir province on Saturday on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda,...

[UPDATE] Assailants who assaulted Turkish journalist released

Six people who were detained for beating up Turkish journalist and TV host Yavuz Selim Demirağ have been released, the Sözcü newspaper reported on Monday. The prosecutor’s office...

Turkey orders detention of 61 in post-coup crackdown targeting Gülen movement

Turkish prosecutors on Friday ordered the detention of 61 people, including military members, as part of a massive post-coup crackdown targeting faith-based Gülen movement followers. The Erdoğan...

Nearly 911,000 Kurdish HDP supporters voted for İmamoğlu on March 31: study

Some 911,000 of the votes garnered by the Turkish opposition alliance’s İstanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu on March 31 came from supporters of the Kurdish Peoples’...

Baby accompanying mother in prison joins 700 other kids growing up behind bars

Selma Betül Urunga, a 2-year-old whose parents were jailed as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting Gülen movement followers, has been sent to Mersin Prison to...

11 elected neighborhood administrators removed from office on terrorism allegations

Eleven neighborhood administrators, or muhtars, who were elected in the March 31 local elections in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır have been removed from office on...

Former chief justice says election board’s İstanbul decision ‘confirmation of guilt’

Turkey’s former chief justice, Haşim Kılıç, has said the country’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has confirmed its guilt by nullifying the mayoral election in İstanbul, which...

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