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Lawyer for prosecutor defendants in ‘MİT trucks’ case gets 7.5 years in prison

The lawyer who represented defendants in a case that exposed Turkish intelligence agency trucks carrying arms to Syria in 2014 was handed down a...

Former coup plot judge given 12 years in prison over Gülen links

Ali Efendi Peksak, a former judge who was on the panel hearing the 2003 Sledgehammer (Balyoz) coup plot trial, has been handed down a...

AKP, MHP deputies reject motion aiming to shed light on Dink murder

Deputies from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have rejected a parliamentary motion from a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...

Fenerbahçe chairman says 100,000 people smeared him as Gülenist to prevent his election

Ali Koç, the chairman of Fenerbahçe, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, said on Thursday that in the run-up to elections for the club’s...

Teacher who died in jail reported being denied crucial treatment in letter shortly before death

Halime Gülsu, a 34-year-old unemployed English teacher who died in jail in May because she was allegedly denied the necessary treatment for a chronic...

5 Syrian workers killed in fire at Ankara factory

Five Syrian workers died in a fire that broke out in a factory in the Altındağ district of Ankara on Wednesday, according to a...

165-year-old Turkish woman on voter lists signals election fraud: CHP deputy

A supposedly 165-year-old Turkish woman from the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri made it into the voter lists announced by Turkey’s Supreme Election Board...

Justice minister says purges might continue since Gülenists are not yet gone

Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül said on Tuesday that ongoing purges within the bureaucracy might continue since it is not possible to claim...

Turkish mafia leader announces aid to Free Syrian Army

Sedat Peker, a devoted supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Wednesday announced a shipment of aid to the Free Syrian Army (FSA)...

Since election as president, Erdoğan’s spending has increased by 550 pct

The expenditures of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have exceeded the outlay of any other president in the history of the Turkish Republic, increasing by 550...

Turkish theologian dismissed after remarks praising atheists

Cemil Kılıç, a Turkish theologian and religious teacher, was removed from his post at a high school in İstanbul on Tuesday following recent remarks...

Owners of now-defunct Turkish poultry producer arrested over Gülen links

The father and son owners of Şeker Piliç, which was one of Turkey’s major poultry producers prior to its declaration of bankruptcy in 2015,...

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