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Demirtaş’s lawyers go to top court after appeals court upholds prison sentence

Lawyers for jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court after an appeals court upheld a prison sentence of four years, eight...

Woman’s passport seized in Turkey due to husband’s tweets

Rahime Kılıç Baykal, a woman of Turkish origin who lives in Vienna, had her passport seized by Turkish authorities during a visit to Turkey...

Video of Syrian refugees’ new year celebration in İstanbul sparks unease on social media

A video of a group of Syrian refugees celebrating the new year in Taksim Square and on İstiklal Street in İstanbul went viral and...

Turkey detains ISIL suspects including 2 wanted by France

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency says police have detained 12 suspected Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, including two women who...

CHP to apply to high court against parliament speaker’s İstanbul mayoral bid

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday said they would apply to the Constitutional Court against the ruling Justice and Development Party’s...

Turkish generals removed from command opposed operation in Manbij: columnist

A columnist on Wednesday claimed that two Turkish generals who were removed from command in Syria were opposed to a military offensive east of...

Turkish scientist faces up to 12 years in prison for revealing environmental hazards

Turkish academic Bülent Şık faces up to 12 years in prison for sharing with the public the results of an environmental study that indicated...

Human smugglers indicted for death of 3 migrants off Turkish coast

A Turkish prosecutor has indicted 14 suspects on charges of “manslaughter with intent” following the death of three migrants in a failed attempt to...

112 journalists given various jail sentences in Turkey in 2018

A total of 520 journalists appeared in court in 2018, and 112 of them were given jail sentences of varying durations including aggravated life,...

HSBC director general in Turkey faces investigation on Erdoğan insult charges

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the HSBC bank director general in Turkey on charges of insulting Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...

Turkish general who sparked controversy in presidential election removed from command in Syria

Lt. Gen. İsmail Metin Temel, commander of Turkish troops in Afrin, Syria, who recently sparked a political controversy when he applauded a speech by...

Turkey bars German citizen from leaving country: report

Germany’s foreign ministry said on Monday it was providing consular aid to a German citizen barred from leaving Turkey after the authorities accused him...

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