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Turkey’s TRT gives 10 times more coverage to AKP-MHP alliance than opposition

Public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) allocated 10 times more election coverage to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement...

Erdoğan accuses Women’s Day protestors of disrespecting Islamic call to prayer

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused protestors who took part in a march in central İstanbul on the occasion of International Women’s Day...

Police raid HDP Diyarbakır offices, detain 7 party officials on hunger strike

Turkish police teams used force to enter the Diyarbakır offices of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the early hours of Saturday and...

AKP deputy says others could exploit religion for politics, too

Kasım Gülpınar, a deputy from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said it is normal for his party to abuse religion for...

Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Women’s Day march in İstanbul

Riot police in İstanbul fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators who tried to march along the city's main pedestrian...

Female candidates in Turkey’s local elections below 7 percent

As Turkey’s upcoming local elections draw closer, the proportion of female candidates nominated by major parties for municipal posts are registered at below 7...

Local mayor in Turkey slaps female employee on women’s day

Haluk Alıcık, the mayor of Turkey’s western district of Nazilli, is seen in a video slapping a female employee, regional media outlet Aydın Life...

Turkey top jailer of female journalists, CPJ announces on International Women’s Day

Turkey is the world’s top jailer of female journalists with 14 in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on March 8, International...

Turkish court rejects academic’s objection to travel ban

An Ankara court has rejected an objection to a travel ban imposed on an academic who was fired from his university job over the...

CHP candidate claims campaign office visitors investigated over support for terrorism

A candidate for mayor of Turkey’s southeastern district of Uludere from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) claimed that people who visited his campaign office...

‘What’s done is done’: AKP candidate on over-urbanization of İstanbul

Binali Yıldırım, a candidate for mayor of İstanbul, has responded to criticism that İstanbul has been excessively urbanized, saying, “What’s done is done,” the...

2 more HDP deputies go on hunger strike, bringing total to 4

Two more deputies from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on Friday that they had started a hunger strike demanding an end to the...

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