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Over 41,000 education staff dismissed since 2016 coup attempt in Turkey

A total of 34,000 teachers have been dismissed along with 5,882 academics and 1,372 administrative personnel from universities in Turkey as part of a...

Opposition party’s campaign booth attacked in Ankara

An unknown group of people attacked an opposition Felicity Party (SP) campaign booth as party leader Temel Karamollaoğlu was announcing his candidacy for a...

HDP members, including İstanbul co-chair, arrested in run-up to snap elections

An İstanbul court ruled to arrest 10 people, including pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul branch co-chair Cengiz Çiçek and officials from other branches,...

Akşener collects 100,000 signatures in 4 hours to become presidential candidate

The İYİ (Good) Party’s Meral Akşener collected the 100,000 signatures necessary to officially become a presidential candidate during the first four hours of her...

Gül confirms visit by army chief, Erdoğan advisor, says no threat was made

Former President Abdullah Gül has confirmed that Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor İbrahim Kalın paid...

Release Demirtaş during presidential election campaign, says HDP

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is preparing to ask Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the release of jailed HDP deputy Selahattin Demirtaş,...

Man gets 9 years for taking medicine to Gülen-linked hospitals in Tanzania

Sixty-year-old Abdurrahman Selçuk has been convicted of terror charges and handed down a nine-year jail sentence for distributing medicine to hospitals linked to the...

Public survey played role in determining CHP’s presidential candidate

The results of a public survey may have played a role in the main opposition Republican People’s Party‘s (CHP) nomination of Yalova deputy Muharrem...

Detention warrants issued on Friday for 19 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 19 former and active duty military members of varying ranks and nine...

Main opposition CHP announces İnce as presidential candidate

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday announced CHP Yalova deputy Muharrem İnce as its candidate for the June 24 snap presidential...

Detention warrants issued on Friday for 45 over alleged Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 45 people allegedly linked with the "police network" of the faith-based Gülen...

6 MHP deputies refuse to sign on to Erdoğan’s candidacy

Six deputies from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have refused to lend their signatures in support of the presidential candidacy of incumbent President Recep...

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