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Turkish daily ordered to pay damages to parliament speaker for caricature

A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced the Evrensel daily and caricaturist Sefer Selvi to pay TL 10,000 ($1,800) to Parliament Speaker Binali Yıldırım and...

CHP refers deputy to disciplinary committee over remarks on call to prayer in Turkish

The Republican People’s Party (CHP) executive board has referred deputy Öztürk Yılmaz to its disciplinary committee over remarks on a TV station suggesting the...

Turkish TV commercial under investigation for featuring actor resembling Gülen

Turkey’s Health Ministry has launched an investigation into the production of a one-minute, 56-second commercial due to the resemblance of one of the actors...

Turkish journalist gets suspended sentence for insulting Erdoğan

A Turkish journalist was handed down a suspended sentence of two years, five months in prison on Thursday for insulting Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip...

Researcher, teacher face legal action on charges of blasphemy, insulting Atatürk

A research assistant at Adnan Menderes University in western Turkey and an imam-hatip schoolteacher in the southern Turkish province of Antalya are facing legal...

Former İstanbul governor sent back to prison after court upholds sentence

Former İstanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu was jailed again on Wednesday after an appeals court upheld a prison sentence of three years, one-and-a-half months...

Turkey to seek extradition of former football player over alleged Gülen links

A high criminal court in İstanbul on Wednesday requested that the necessary judicial action be taken for the extradition of former Galatasaray football player...

33 military members detained over Gülen links

Turkish security forces detained 33 military members on Wednesday as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu...

Jailed HDP deputy goes on hunger strike

Jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Güven on Wednesday announced that she had started a hunger strike, the Diken news website reported. Güven’s decision...

Turkish state broadcaster cancels programs of 2 Erdoğan advisors

Turkey’s state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) has canceled TV programs participated in by two advisors of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the artıgerçek news...

HDP deputy sentenced to two-and-a-half years for terrorist propaganda

The Gaziantep 2nd High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Mahmut Toğrul to two years, six months’ imprisonment for disseminating...

94 detention warrants issued over Gülen links in one day, 49 detained

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 94 people as part of a crackdown on followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, with police...

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