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CHP chair not to attend July 15 ceremony after his speech removed from schedule

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is not going to attend an early Sunday morning ceremony in Parliament to observe the first anniversary...

Erdoğan: If Turkey did not have rule of law, traitors would be lying in random pits

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday claimed that if Turkey did not adhere to the rule of law, tens of thousands of "traitors" would...

Kılıçdaroğlu asks who ordered intelligence, army heads not to testify to coup commission

Addressing Parliament during a special session to commemorate the first anniversary of a botched coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Erdoğan slams release of Kurdish politician from prison

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized the release of veteran Kurdish politician and former mayor of Mardin Ahmet Türk from prison due to...

Another woman who just gave birth to be detained by police in Turkey

A group of police officers have been waiting outside the private Hizmet Hospital in İstanbul's Bahçelievler district in order to detain a woman who...

7,348 more dismissed under draconian new gov’t decree

A total of 7,348 people, including 302 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by a new government decree, known as a KHK, that...

Turkish Armenian intellectual escapes from prison: The bird has flown

Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish intellectual of Armenian origin who was imprisoned on Dec. 2, 2014 for “construction infractions,” announced in a tweet on Friday...

Turkey to extend state of emergency another 3 months

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced on Friday that a state of emergency (OHAL) that was first declared following a failed coup in July...

17 HDP members detained in İzmir over social media posts

Seventeen members of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), including district executive for İzmir's Menemen district Ramazan Yavuz, were detained in police raids in the...

Ministry says 12,600 cases at ECtHR dropped with establishment of OHAL commission

Turkey’s Ministry of Justice has said with the establishment of a state of emergency (OHAL) commission, 12,600 cases currently awaiting review at the European...

Diyarbakır Co-mayor Anlı released from jail

Diyarbakır Co-mayor Fırat Anlı, who was arrested on terror charges last October, was released from jail on Friday. Anlı and the Diyarbakır Municipality's other co-mayor,...

3,206 Turkish nationals seek asylum in Germany in first half of 2017

A total of 3,206 Turkish nationals have applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of 2017, data from the German Federal...

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