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Erdoğan daily: NATO plans to attack Turkey in 2018

The Yeni Şafak daily, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the government, on Sunday said NATO plans to attack Turkey...

Seriously ill 81-year-old Turk ordered to remain in prison on coup charges

A Turkish court on Friday ruled for continuation of the imprisonment of 81-year-old Mustafa Türk, who suffers from debilitating health problems. Türk was taken...

Top Turkish court rejects release request by jailed pro-Kurdish HDP deputy

Turkey's Constitutional Court (AYM) on Thursday rejected a request for release made by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Mardin deputy Gülser Yıldırım, who has...

Turkish minister: 48,000 jailed, 1,028 companies seized over Gülen links

Amid an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said 48,739 people had been jailed and eight holdings and...

Police detain wives of police chiefs who led 2013 corruption operations

The wives of former police chiefs including Ömer Köse, Nazmi Ardıç and Mustafa Demirhan, who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 and...

Freedom House: Turkey has detained tens of thousands for alleged ByLock use

Freedom House, a US-based independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world, has listed Turkey in its newly...

Detention warrants issued for 48 more people over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 48 people across 21 provinces due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Jailed German journalist Yücel: Isolation is torture

Turkey's crackdown on journalists will go down in history as a "disgrace," German reporter Deniz Yücel told German daily Die Tageszeitung in a Saturday interview, Deutsche Welle...

Progressive Lawyers Association president arrested by court on terrorism charges

Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) President Selçuk Kozağaçlı, who was detained on Nov. 8 in İstanbul, has been arrested by a court on charges of...

Turkish court rules Altan brothers, Ilıcak, others to remain in jail

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Fevzi Yazıcı, who were arrested in September 2016 on...

Turkish lieutenant colonel recants testimony, says drugged and tortured

Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide-de-camp of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, on Monday recanted his previous testimony during a hearing at the...

Businessman jailed in Turkey hopes justice will prevail sooner or later

Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen and civil society activists, has voiced the hope that “justice will prevail sooner or later” in comments...

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