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Demirtaş says gov’t pressuring courts to keep him in prison

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş on Sunday said the government is keeping him in prison to guarantee victory in snap...

Erdoğan, İnce wage war of words over Second Army commander

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his election rival Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Muharrem İnce started a war of words over Second Army...

2 shepherds tortured by Turkish soldiers, report says

Two villagers from Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish Hakkari province were allegedly tortured for hours by a group of soldiers, the Mesopotamia news agency reported on...

25 students detained over Gülen links in police raid on university housing

Turkish police on Saturday detained 25 university students in Adana province as part of an investigation by the Adana Chief Public Prosecutor's Office into...

Erdoğan calls on governors, police to enforce Uber ban

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on governors and the police to enforce a recently instituted ban on Uber and similar transportation systems,...

2 RTÜK members apply to YSK demanding removal of TRT head from his post

Two members of Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) have applied to the country’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) seeking the removal of public...

Erdoğan says Demirtaş responsible for 53 deaths, cannot be released from jail

Amid growing calls for the release of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş from pre-trial detention, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Student claims Erdoğan’s ‘surprise’ visit to dormitory was actually planned

A student living in a student dormitory in Ankara that was visited by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a pre-dawn meal, or sahoor, in...

HDP has razor-thin margin for entering parliament, co-chairman says

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Sezai Temelli on Friday released the results of a survey on the upcoming elections on June 24 and said...

[PROFILE] The last prime minister of modern Turkey

One of the peculiar aspects of last year’s referendum, which introduced an executive presidency in Turkey, was that Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım had been...

Police close Gezi Park to avoid possible fifth year anniversary gathering

İstanbul police tightened security measures around Gezi Park due to the possibility of a demonstration marking the famous protests’ fifth anniversary, BBC Turkish service...

Greece bars CHP group from electioneering within its borders

Greece refused entry to a large number of Republican People’s Party (CHP) politicians to campaign for upcoming Turkish elections after allowing CHP presidential candidate...

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