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HDP says Erdoğan pressure caused court to rule against Demirtaş release

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said a Turkish court that ruled on Friday not to release former HDP co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş from...

Retrial prosecutor: No evidence of Ergenekon terrorist organization

The prosecutor in the retrial of the clandestine Ergenekon network, which was once considered the “deep state” in Turkey, concluded on Friday that there...

Purged teacher from shut-down Gülen movement school disappears

Ahmet Ertürk, a teacher who lost his job in a purge carried out by Turkish authorities, has been missing since Nov. 16, according to...

Local court rejects Demirtaş’s appeal for release despite ECtHR ruling

The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request for release filed by Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş which was based on a...

Prosecutor seeks aggravated life for 59 defendants in corruption probe trial

An İstanbul prosecutor is seeking aggravated life sentences for 59 defendants including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and police chiefs on charges of attempting to...

Appeals court upholds sentences given 5 journalists in Özgür Gündem trial

A regional appeals court in İstanbul has upheld jail sentences handed down to five journalists by a local court for alleged links to the...

Search and rescue began 6 hours after deadly accident at new highway viaduct

Turkish search and rescue teams took six hours to arrive at the scene of an accident on Wednesday at a viaduct on the North...

Erdoğan’s office demands opposition leaders, deputies be stripped of immunity

The office of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday demanded that the country’s parliament strip immunity from the leaders of the main and...

Erdoğan says Turkey could mediate in Russia-Ukraine crisis

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that Turkey could play the role of mediator in easing tensions between Russia and Ukraine after the...

Renowned Turkish human rights activist Fincancı receives Hessian Peace Prize

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, on Monday accepted the Hessian Peace...

Muhtar receives 45-month jail sentence on charges of insulting Atatürk

A muhtar (neighborhood head) in the western province of İzmir has been handed down a jail sentence of three years, nine months on charges...

Kılıçdaroğlu meets with family of arrested deputy Eren Erdem

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Wednesday met in Germany with the family of jailed former CHP...

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