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Head of İstanbul Bar Association: No rule of law in Turkey

Chairman of the İstanbul Bar Association Mehmet Durakoğlu has warned against the threat of political favoritism in the judiciary and said there is no...

50 more prisons under construction for Gülen movement people

Turkish Justice Ministry Undersecretary Kenan İpek on Tuesday said more than 50 prisons are under construction for the incarceration of people linked to the...

HDP deputies refuse to leave top court after unsatisfactory explanation about arrested colleagues

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who visited Turkey's Constitutional Court (AYM) early on Tuesday to discuss HDP deputies under arrest refused to leave...

Turkish-Armenian intellectual says failed coup staged to purge Gülen followers

Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir in July, shared his take on a failed coup in Turkey...

Top appeals court president raises public concerns over Turkish judiciary

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals President İsmail Rüştü Cirit has said there are serious concerns among the public over the judicial system in Turkey,...

Turkish gov’t to initially give citizenship to 7,000 Syrians

A total of 7,000 Syrians out of 300,000 asylum seekers in Turkey are to be initially granted Turkish citizenship, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on...

Motion filed against HDP deputy for ‘terror propaganda’

A motion has been filed against pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy Çağlar Demirel for disseminating “terrorist propaganda” by the Diyarbakır Chief Public...

Turkish forces kill 8 PKK militants in northern Iraq

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have announced that eight Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed during air operations in northern Iraq, CNN...

MHP deputy: Judiciary acting in fear due to political pressure

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Samsun deputy Erhan Usta has said the judiciary is acting in fear in investigations linked...

Education Ministry: Wives should obey their husbands, not marry atheists

A textbook on the life of the Prophet Muhammad prepared by the Turkish Education Ministry in the framework of a highly controversial new national...

59 detained in one week over Gülen links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 59 people have been detained in one week due to their alleged links to the Gülen...

HDP says gov’t has given security forces a blank check for civilian killings in SE Turkey

Amid news stories that a Turkish drone attack killed one civilian and wounded three others in Hakkari on Friday, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)...

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