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Former top religious body president Görmez to be rector of new university

Mehmet Görmez, who recently retired as director of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), will serve as rector of the newly established Turkey International Islam,...

Judge breaks off coup hearing after complainants throw water bottles at defendants

The presiding judge at a hearing in Ankara on Thursday, part of a trial of key suspects in a failed coup in 2016, broke...

Another police chief jailed over Gülen links dies in Turkish prison

Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...

ECtHR rejects release request of jailed Turkish hunger strikers

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday rejected Turkish hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça’s request to order the Turkish...

HRW to Turkey: Investigate abductions, disappearances in Ankara

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and possibly enforced disappearances...

US-bound THY flight returns to İstanbul after unattended phone found on board

Turkish Airlines (THY) flight A333, flying to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, turned back to İstanbul Atatürk Airport while in Romanian airspace after the flight...

625 more members resign from MHP to form new party with expelled Akşener

A total of 625 members of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) Kocaeli and Bursa provincial branches have resigned to join former MHP deputy Meral...

3 local journalists detained after interview with businessman jailed for Gülen links

Three local journalists in Turkey’s Gaziantep province were detained by police after releasing an interview with jailed businessman Ahmet Selim Ener, who was imprisoned...

[UPDATE] Turkish gov’t names new top land, air and navy commanders

The Supreme Military Council (YAŞ), which convened at the Çankaya Palace on Wednesday, reshuffled land, naval and air force commanders and decided to designate...

[UPDATE] HDP deputy Lezgin Botan released after brief detention

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Van deputy Lezgin Botan was released on Wednesday after being briefly detained on charges of insulting Turkish President Tayyip...

Opposition party CHP visits pro-Kurdish HDP’s ‘Justice Watch’

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday attended a “Justice Watch” launched by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a...

Ankara bans protests to prevent support for hunger strikers

The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city for a period of one...

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