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Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy sentenced to 16 years in prison

A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris Baluken to 16 years and 8 months in prison, Habertürk reported. Baluken...

Detention warrants issued for 70 more military personnel over Gülen links

The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 70 military personnel of various ranks as part of a witch-hunt targeting people...

Turkish interior minister tells police to break drug dealers’ legs

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has called on police to break the legs of drug dealers, the Ahval news website reported based on a...

49 former Bank Asya shareholders detained over Gülen links

Police on Wednesday detained 49 former shareholders of the now-closed Islamic lender Bank Asya out of 68 for whom warrants were issued over alleged...

CHP’s Aksünger: US to fine Turkey $10 bln over Atilla case

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Erdal Aksünger on Tuesday said the US will fine Turkey $10 billion over the case of...

İYİ Party leader Akşener: Civilians getting arms training in two provinces

Amid debates over a recent controversial state of emergency decree that gives immunity to civilians who take part in thwarting coup and terror incidents,...

Amid purge Turkish gov’t to enlist 43,000 military personnel

After dismissing more than 25,000 military members following a failed coup in July 2016, the Turkish government has announced it will enlist 42,938 new...

Turkish justice minister: Gülen cases won’t be on Turkey’s agenda in 2018

Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül said on Monday that cases against members of the faith-based Gülen movement, which the Turkish government blames for a...

17 detained in first day of new year in witch hunt targeting Gülen movement

Seventeen people including judges, prosecutors and military officers were detained on the first day of the new year as part of an investigation into...

AKP’s Metiner calls former President Gül ‘political dog of putschists’

Following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's strong verbal attack on former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a new...

Turkish PM declares all critics of controversial decree ‘coup plotters’

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Sunday strongly criticized people who have condemned a new state of emergency decree that gives immunity to civilians...

Erdoğan calls former President Gül a troublemaker

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday continued to lambaste former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a new...

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