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Turkey holds thousands in solitary in Erdoğan’s prisons: report

Thousands of prisoners are being held in solitary confinement in Turkey under conditions so harsh that some prisoners consider dying by suicide, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported...

Police setting up security perimeters around 2 Kurdish municipal buildings

Police in the Kurdish province of Şırnak are setting up barricades and X-ray machines in and around the municipal buildings in two districts without the approval...

Turkish presidential official blacklists celebrities who supported opposition hashtag

Muhammet Safi, the head of the archives department at the Turkish presidency, on Tuesday tweeted a list targeting celebrities who supported an opposition hashtag after the cancelation...

Photo of woman in German language textbook doctored to include headscarf

The photo of an elderly woman in a German language textbook provided to students by the Turkish Education Ministry turns out to have been photoshopped to...

Former PM Davutoğlu expresses unease over cancellation of İstanbul election results

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has voiced concern about a controversial decision by Turkey’s election authority to cancel the results of a mayoral election in...

CHP applies to election board for cancellation of June 24 elections

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday asking for cancellation of the general and presidential elections held...

Turkey’s election board rejects opposition request to cancel İstanbul poll results in their entirety

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has denied an application by the opposition to cancel the results and re-run all segments of the local İstanbul elections instead of...

Former President Gül expresses concerns over cancelation of İstanbul election

Turkey’s former President Abdullah Gül on Tuesday expressed concern over the election board’s announcement to re-run the İstanbul mayoral election, likening the ruling to a Constitutional...

HDP deputies on hunger strike request official declaration ending Öcalan’s ‘isolation’

Deputies from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who have been on a hunger strike protesting the inability of Kurdish terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan to speak...

Kurdish party co-chair says will continue supporting opposition candidate in İstanbul

Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) party co-chair Sezai Temelli on Tuesday signaled that the party would continue its support for the opposition’s mayoral candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu,...

Critical Turkish theologian briefly detained during Ramadan event

Turkish theologian and author İhsan Eliaçık was briefly detained on Monday at a Ramadan event held in İstanbul, Sputnik Turkish service reported. He was released today along with...

İstanbul Municipality unfollows İmamoğlu on Twitter after election results canceled

The official Twitter account of the İstanbul Municipality has unfollowed opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu following a decision by the country’s election authority to cancel and re-run the...

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