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[UPDATE] Cartoonist convicted of insulting Erdoğan released on probation

Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe, 69, on Tuesday was released from prison on probation after serving one day of jail time. Kurtcebe, who used to work for...

HDP election campaign subjected to 22 attacks in 35 days

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as of June 3 had been the subject of 22 attacks since the launch of its election campaign...

Erdoğan ally insists on general amnesty before elections

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Monday reiterated his call for a general amnesty that would exclude Gülen-linked suspects and Kurdistan Workers’...

Turkey’s agriculture minister smacks journalist over a question

Turkish Agriculture Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba slapped a journalist who asked a question about his security detail in Şanlıurfa province, Aktifhaber reported on Monday. A...

Erdoğan says no longer any Kurdish problem in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has managed to resolve Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish problem during...

Police start to fine Uber drivers after regulation passes in parliament

Police in İstanbul fined 29 Uber and Scotty – an online application for carrying passengers by motorcycle – drivers a total of TL 87,174...

Election board gives Demirtaş permission to appear on TRT

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) gave permission for jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş to appear on state-run TRT by video...

İYİ Party campaign booths attacked for third time

The İYİ (Good) Party said their campaign booths were attacked by a group of people from the First Vote Movement Platform on Friday evening...

Akşener calls for meeting with election allies over İnce’s remarks

İYİ (Good) Party presidential candidate Meral Akşener has invited Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to a meeting over remarks made by CHP...

Amnesty International calls for action to free Turkish rapper Ezhel

Amnesty International (AI) released an urgent call to action on Friday, asking that supporters write to Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül and ask him...

Police check criminal records in Diyarbakır before Erdoğan campaign rally

Police in Diyarbakır knocked on the doors of houses from the airport to Mahabad Square, a 75-meter stretch of road, and checked residents’ criminal...

9 migrants die after boat sinks off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast

The Turkish Coast Guard said on Sunday that nine people including six children died after a speedboat carrying 15 migrants sank off the coast...

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