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Dismissed police officer found dead in Konya apartment

Melikşah Kültür, a 41-year-old police officer who was dismissed from his job as part of an administrative investigation launched into him, was found dead...

[VIDEO] Erdoğan: Detained human rights defenders gathered to plan follow-up coup

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused a group of recently detained human rights defenders of plotting a follow-up to a July 15, 2016 coup...

[VIDEO] Erdoğan: HDP Co-chair Demirtaş is a terrorist who used Kurds to kill Kurds

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a press conference on Saturday that he perceives pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş to...

[VIDEO] Police beat Reyhanlı attack victims, saying ‘Sorry, we thought you were Demirtaş supporters’

Ankara police beat family members of victims of a 2013 terrorist attack in Reyhanlı after a hearing on Friday and then apologized to them,...

Minister says 5,300 new cadets to be recruited

Amid the debate over purges in the Turkish military, Defense Minister Fikri Işık has said 5,300 more military school cadets will be enrolled in...

Pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülen supporters a religious obligation

Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for the pro-government Milat and Yenisöz newspapers, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is a “religious...

Kılıçdaroğlu urges marchers not to carry party flags in final rally

Chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu called on supporters of the "March of Justice" not to carry any party...

Pro-Erdoğan daily: Detained rights defenders were planning second Gezi-like protest

The staunchly pro-government Akşam daily on Saturday claimed that a group of human rights defenders who were detained on Wednesday on an İstanbul island were working...

Minister says 450,000 refugees returned to Syria

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said over 3 million Syrian refugees are living in Turkey and 450,000 have returned home, the Sabah daily...

[VIDEO] AI reminds Erdoğan of their support when he was jailed

Amnesty International (AI) on Friday addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a special video, reminding Erdoğan how the organization campaigned when he was...

Erdoğan says courts will convict many in coup trials by end of 2017

Responding to questions from reporters about the slow prosecution of suspects in a failed coup last July, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on...

Justice Minister Bozdağ says 50,504 arrested since coup attempt

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Friday that since a failed coup attempt last July, 50,504 people have been arrested and 168,801 are...

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