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Turkish courts hands down 1,934 life sentences in coup-related trials: report

A total of 1,934 people were given life sentences by Turkish courts in trials related to a 2016 failed coup attempt, the state-run Anadolu...

Jailed HDP politician goes on hunger strike in support of PKK leader

Gültan Kışanak, former mayor of the Kurdish-dominated southeastern province of Diyarbakır and a member of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has joined an ongoing...

Turkish opposition agrees on previous Ankara mayoral contender for local elections

Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and İYİ (Good) Party on Tuesday agreed on an alliance for the post of Ankara mayor in local...

Turkish minister admits owning illegally constructed hotels

Mehmet Ersoy, Turkey’s minister of culture and tourism, admitted that he owns illegally constructed hotels, in an interview that appeared in the Hürriyet newspaper...

Turkish-German journalist says attending funerals cited as evidence against him

German-Turkish dual citizen and journalist Adil Demirci, who has been in pre-trial detention in Turkey on terrorism charges since April, has said his participation...

Netherlands investigating Turkish professor’s remark that killing Gülenists is permissible in Islam

Dutch officials have initiated an investigation into Rotterdam Islamic University President Ahmet Akgündüz, a staunch supporter of the Turkish government, who said that killing...

Turkish teacher dismissed after sharing poor student’s backpack photo

A teacher in the eastern Turkish province of Muş was dismissed after sharing a photo of a poor student’s makeshift backpack to encourage people...

Court rules to continue two-year-long pretrial detention of 2 Kurdish politicians

A court in Malatya has ruled to keep Gültan Kışanak, former mayor of Diyarbakır from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair...

Erdoğan rules out revival of peace talks with outlawed Kurdish militants

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday ruled out the revival of peace negotiations with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the state-run Anadolu...

Journalism student arrested for insulting Erdoğan released on probation

Berivan Bila, a journalism student at Karadeniz Technical University who was arrested on Dec. 7 on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was...

Former AKP deputy on Sarah Jessica Parker: Ardent supporter of Israel, father is Jewish

Following a report that famous American actress Sarah Jessica Parker is to publish a jailed Kurdish politician’s book, a former deputy from the governing...

Mother, son receive suspended sentence for insulting Turkey’s Erdoğan

A mother and a son in İzmir province on Monday received a suspended sentence of 11 months, 20 days on charges of insulting Turkish...

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