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Annual electricity consumption of Erdoğan’s palace equal to 1,300 residences

The Turkish presidential palace is expected to consume enough electricity in 2019 to power 1,300 private homes, according to a tender opened for the...

Turkish court hands down 6-year jail sentence to German-Kurdish singer

A Turkish court in the western Turkish province of Edirne has given a jail sentence of six years, three months to a German-Kurdish singer,...

Occupancy rate in Turkish prisons more than 40,000 above capacity

Şaban Yılmaz, the director general of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, has announced that prison occupancy in Turkey exceeds capacity by some 40,000 inmates, the...

Turkey aims to bring researchers back home

A program to bring Turkish researchers back home will be launched on Dec. 15, Turkey's technology and industry minister said on Wednesday, the state-run...

Turkish court dismisses conviction of WSJ reporter for terrorist propaganda

A Turkish court on Tuesday overturned a verdict against Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak that sentenced her to two years, one month in...

Ex-Zaman columnist Ali Ünal sentenced 19.5 years in prison

The Uşak 2nd High Criminal Court handed down a sentence of nineteen-and-a-half years to columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily Ali Ünal on charges...

Purged doctors to be able to work at private hospitals as AKP backtracks on bill

Thousands of doctors who have been fired from their jobs at state-run hospitals as part of a massive purge launched by Turkey’s Justice and...

55,000 Syrians granted Turkish citizenship in past 7 years

A total of 55,000 people of Syrian descent have been granted Turkish citizenship over the past seven years, a deputy from the ruling Justice...

Turkey tops WHO’s highest antibiotic use list in Europe: report

Turkey has ranked the highest in antibiotics use at over 38 defined daily doses (DDD) per 1,000 people in Europe, where the average antibiotic...

145 detention warrants issued, 80 detained over Gülen links in one day

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 145 people and detained 80 of them as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of...

Imam announces candidacy for ruling party mayor in mosque

İmdat Atmaca, an imam in the Ayvacık district of northern Samsun province, announced at the end of Friday prayers last week that he was...

Support for Turkey’s AKP stands at 41 percent, CHP 25 percent: poll

A recent poll conducted in October by the MetroPoll company suggests that in a general election the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would...

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