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Turkey’s opposition leader wants to hear Khashoggi recording in parliament

Turkey’s main opposition leader, Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on Tuesday said his party would request the playing in parliament of an...

[UPDATE] Woman who attacked Atatürk monument released on probation

A court has released on probation Çiğdem B., who while dressed in a burqa had attacked a monument of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of...

Prosecutor seeks to proceed against HDP co-chair, deputies for terrorist propaganda

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday requested permission to proceed in a criminal case against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan...

Erdoğan: Turkey needs judges, prosecutors who follow orders of state

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a message to newly appointed judges and prosecutors on Monday that the government needs judges and prosecutors...

Presidential decree creates 10,000 more ‘neighborhood watchman’ positions

A new decree issued in Turkey on Monday created 10,000 more positions for “neighborhood watchmen” (bekçi in Turkish) upon the request of President Recep...

Minister says 1,289 sacked from TÜBİTAK since 2013 over Gülen links

Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank announced on Monday that a total of 1,289 people have been fired from the Scientific and...

Turkey’s Diyanet spends TL 3.2 million on decorating expenses

At a time when the Turkish economy is going through difficult times, Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has spent TL 3.2 million (around $600,000)...

İstanbul’s Beşiktaş, Kadıköy, Ankara’s Çankaya top most developed districts index

Turkey’s most developed districts are Beşiktaş and Kadıköy in İstanbul and Çankaya in Ankara, according to a new report released by the Human Development...

Turkey cuts disability benefit for blind journalist serving prison sentence

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, sent a letter through his...

Released academic says detention has become common practice in Turkey

Cenk Yiğiter, an academic who had been fired from his job by the Turkish government, was released on Monday following his detention on Friday...

Turkish daily claims pressure on advertising has caused financial problems

The Turkish Karar daily announced in its Monday edition that businesspeople and advertising agencies have been urged not to place ads in the newspaper,...

Gülen movement confirms botched plot against jailed followers on election night

The Alliance for Shared Values (AfSV), the official representative of the Gülen movement in the United States, in an online statement on Sunday confirmed...

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