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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...

Doğan Holding rules out claims over POAŞ, names them slanderous

Turkey's Doğan Holding has rejected allegations about its honorary chairman Aydın Doğan who has recently been indicted on charges of oil smuggling along in...

Radikal daily to be closed down two years after going digital

Radikal daily, which has for years served as one of the critical voices in the Turkish press and went to a digital-only version two...

Turkey captures would-be ISIL suicide bomber along Syria border

Turkish security forces captured 10 people, including one who was wearing a ready-to-explode suicide bomb vest, as they were trying to cross into Turkey...

Turkish court accepts indictment against media mogul Doğan, İşbank chairman

A Turkish court has accepted an indictment filed against Doğan Holding owner Aydın Doğan and İşbank Chairman Ersin Özince on charges of of involvement...

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