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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...

İstanbul court releases all 7 jailed suspects in ISIL trial

Seven suspects in a trial in which 96 people are being tried on charges of membership in the Islamic State in Iraq and the...

PKK attacks leave 8 soldiers dead in southeast Turkey

Five soldiers have been killed and nine others were injured after explosives believed to have been planted by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)...

Top court rules arrest warrant be issued for graft probe prosecutor

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has decided for the issuing of an arrest warrant for former public prosecutor Celal Kara who was one of...

British academic Stephenson returns to Turkey

Chris Stephenson, a British academic who left Turkey last week after a prosecutor wanted his deportation accusing him of “making terrorist propaganda," returned to...

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