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Let’s leave election debates behind, focus on economy, security: Erdoğan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said Turkey needs to leave election debates behind and focus on the country’s real agenda starting with the economy and...

Police forcibly remove mothers of inmates on hunger strike to prevent sit-in

Turkish police on Friday forcibly removed the mothers of inmates on a hunger strike after they attempted to hold a sit-in in front of Gebze Prison...

8 Turkish journalists to start serving prison sentences

Turkey is about to send eight journalists and media staff to prison after their sentences were upheld by an appeals court, the Medyascope news website reported on...

Presidency takes over control of Turkey’s Anadolu news agency

The Presidential Communications Directorate has taken control of Turkey’s state news agency, according to a presidential decree in the Official Gazette on Friday. The presidential body is...

Company executive in Turkey’s worst mining disaster released from prison

Can Gürkan, an executive of a mining company in the western Turkish city of Soma in Manisa province, where Turkey’s worst mining disaster took place in...

Child participation in workforce rises to 21.1 percent in Turkey

The participation of children in the workforce in Turkey has risen to 21.1 percent in 2018 from 20.3 percent the previous year, according to data from...

MHP executive says CHP aims not to serve nation but to destroy one man rule, bring democracy

A top executive from Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has said the country’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) does not aim to serve the nation...

Turkey’s election body finalizes decision to cancel election of purge victim mayors

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Thursday confirmed its decision to annul the election of mayors who were purged from public service by government decrees after...

Prosecutor demands lengthy prison sentences for Sözcü journalists over Gülen links

A Turkish prosecutor on Thursday demanded lengthy prison sentences for columnists, reporters and media workers from the Sözcü daily on charges of supporting a terrorist organization,...

Erdoğan to continue election results challenge but says Turkey must move on

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday said his ruling party would keep up its challenge to the İstanbul election results after the main opposition candidate became...

New İstanbul mayor promises transparency, pluralism after receiving mandate

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition’s İstanbul mayoral candidate who was officially declared the new mayor of Turkey’s largest city on Wednesday, has vowed to conduct municipal affairs in...

Teacher who said ‘Don’t let children die’ on TV jailed again

Teacher Ayşe Çelik, who during a TV program in 2016 called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces in Diyarbakır and...

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