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Erdoğan blasts UK consul general for attending Dündar hearing

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the British Consul General Leigh Turner as well as other EU consul generals for attending the hearing of...

60 percent of Sur district to be expropriated after conflict

The government has moved to expropriate 60 percent of the district of Sur, in southeast Diyarbakir province after army operations against the PKK lasting...

Parallel structure blamed again, as Erdoğan shifts blame of dead soldiers

Only days after telling Turkey that the parallel structure had been dealt with, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again used the fictitious term...

23 released pending trial in KPSS cheating case

Twenty-three people, who had been among 54 suspects who had been jailed as part of an investigation into alleged cheating on the centralized 2010...

Davutoğlu defends foundation linked to teacher accused of child abuse

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has claimed that the Ensar Foundation, which has been at the heart of a recent controversy fuelled by the...

Draft law allowing profiling of citizens passes in parliament 

The draft law on the Protection of Personal Data -- which envisages granting sweeping new powers to the intelligence services allowing them to process and archive personal...

Yamanlar College student receives highest score in YGS

Ahmet Kocataş, a student of the Yamanlar College in İzmir's Karşıyaka district, was announced to receive the highest score in the Higher Education Examination...

Child abuse commission to be formed as AK Party backtracks

A commission to investigate child abuse in Turkey is to be formed in parliament after huge public backlash prompted the ruling party to backtrack...

Academicians face abitrary dismissal with new law

Academicians in Turkey can now be investigated at the behest of the president of The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) and dismissed from their...

Court orders ‘secrecy’ as Cumhuriyet journalists go on trial over Syria arms report

Two leading editors of the critical Cumhuriyet daily, who were released on Feb. 26 after the Constitutional Court said their imprisonment for publishing a...

Journalist gets 2.5 years prison sentence for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan in tweets

Former Today's Zaman columnist and Editor-in-Chief Bülent Keneş has been sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip...

AK Party expels critical founding member Yakış

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has expelled Yaşar Yakış, one of its founders who served as foreign minister, who served as...

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