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Turkey has canceled 1,954 press cards since January 2016, says vice president

Turkey’s vice president on Wednesday said 1,954 press cards were canceled by the government between Jan. 1, 2016 and Nov. 29, 2018 for various...

Minister’s wife gets plum presidency post after 5-year absence from civil servant job

İlknur Gül, the wife of Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül and the daughter of the Chief Ombudsman Şeref Malkoç who was reportedly on leave...

Turkey captured nearly 9,500 EU citizens on their way to join YPG or ISIL: minister

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Wednesday said Turkey had captured nearly 9,500 EU citizens who were about to cross the border with Syria to...

Detention warrants issued for 49 ex-policemen over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday issued detention warrants for 49 former police officers as part of a crackdown targeting followers of...

Turkish rights activist Fincancı sentenced to prison for signing peace petition

The İstanbul 37th High Criminal Court has sentenced Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor...

2,754 arrested in Turkey over social media messages in 2018

A total of 110,000 social media accounts have been investigated, 7,109 social media users have been detained and 2,754 of them have been arrested...

Opposition deputy claims seized foundations handed over to pro-government organizations

A deputy from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has claimed that real estate belonging to 161 foundations that were seized and subsequently...

Erdoğan’s senior advisor says there are no journalists in jail in Turkey

Gülnur Aybet, a senior advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has claimed Turkey has not convicted anyone for what they have written or...

Former HDP politician gets jail sentence on terrorism charges

A high criminal court in the eastern province of Iğdır on Tuesday handed down a jail sentence of two years to former pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

CHP nominates İmamoğlu for İstanbul mayoral race in local elections

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Tuesday announced the nomination of Ekrem İmamoğlu for the post of İstanbul mayor in local elections...

Gülen’s nephew sentenced to 7.5 years by Turkish court

Selman Gülen, nephew of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison by a Turkish court on Tuesday on charges...

RSF 2018 report: Turkey remains world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists

Turkey continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists according to a report released on Tuesday by Reporters without Borders (RSF), despite...

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