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Deputy PM: Turkey to adopt chemical castration for child abusers

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Sunday that Turkey would adopt chemical castration for child abusers after the brutal abuse and murder of...

Turkey closes German Embassy school in İzmir for ‘lacking a license’

Turkish officials have closed a German Embassy school in İzmir, with the head teacher telling German press agency DPA that the officials said the...

CHP’s İnce says he will not run against against Kılıçdaroğlu for chairmanship

Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce in response to intra-party debates has said he would not run against CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu...

Survey: As human rights violations in Turkey increase, reports in media decrease

Although there were significantly more human rights violations in Turkey in 2017 than in 2015, coverage of the violations declined in the Turkish media,...

16 foreign students in Mersin detained over Gülen links

Sixteen foreign students studying in Turkey -- 10 from Somalia, three from Djibouti, two from Guinea and one from Syria -- were detained when...

[ANALYSIS] The curious case of greatly increased MHP support in predominantly Kurdish regions

Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has been the subject of intense speculation since the presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. Whereas the party’s...

Court rules to continue detention of HDP’s newly elected deputy

The Diyarbakır 10th High Criminal Court has ruled for a continuation of the detention of Leyla Güven, a newly elected Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...

Turkish mafia leader threatens newspaper boss, columnists, over report

Notorious mafia leader Alaattin Çakıcı threatened Karar daily boss Mehmet Aydın and six columnists in a written statement posted on his "official" Instagram account...

Former CHP deputy Erdem arrested over Gülen links

Former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem was arrested by the İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court on Friday after he was detained by...

MHP to support AKP’s candidate for parliament speaker

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) announced on Thursday it will support the Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate for speaker of the Turkish parliament...

Journalist goes on trial for insulting Erdoğan in ‘fascist dictatorship’ column

Thursday saw the start of the trial of Kamil Tekin Sürek, a columnist for the Evrensel daily, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip...

Interior Minister Soylu bars attendance of CHP officials at martyrs’ funerals

Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Thursday he gave orders to provincial governors to prevent the attendance of Republican People’s Party (CHP) officials...

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