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Erdoğan’s AKP to consider possibility of early presidential election

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party will discuss the possibility of holding Turkey’s presidential election in August, more than a year earlier than planned,...

Police inform family that man abducted 133 days ago is in custody

Ümit Horzum, a former civil servant who was removed from his job at the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) by a decree issued last year...

Thousands of CHP supporters hold sit-in protest in Taksim against OHAL

Thousands of supporters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans to...

702 detained in one week over alleged Gülen links

A total of 702 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Turkish Interior...

[UPDATE] Turkish court rules to keep American pastor behind bars

A Turkish court ruled to keep in custody American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in October 2016 in Turkey on espionage and terror...

3 soldiers killed in PKK attack in Şırnak

Three soldiers were killed and one was injured in a clash with terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province...

Praising abductions, Erdoğan says Gülen will be brought to Turkey, too

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday praised the abduction of people allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...

Court rules to keep HDP’s Demirtaş in pretrial detention

The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court ruled on Friday for a continuation of the imprisonment of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish...

3 more Boğaziçi students arrested over Afrin criticism

Three of four Boğaziçi University students who were detained for their views critical of Turkey's operation in the Afrin region of Syria have been...

21 sentenced to life in prison in Turkey’s 1997 postmodern coup trial

An Ankara court on Friday sentenced 21 suspects, including a former chief of general staff and his deputy, to life in prison for their...

CNN Türk, DHA cut opposition leader’s speech after sale to pro-gov’t group

In a development that fueled concerns that media outlets formerly owned by the Doğan Media Group would give less coverage to Turkey’s opposition after...

Former HDP co-chairperson Yüksekdağ given 6-month jail sentence

Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been jailed since November 2016, has been handed down a prison...

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