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Presidential Archives director calls for arming of households

Muhammet Safi, the director of Turkey's Presidential Archives, has called for the arming of every household for the defense of Turkey, the Diken news...

Evolution theory no longer part of Turkish curriculum, official says

Turkey's Board of Education and Discipline Chairman Alpaslan Durmuş has said chapters on evolution are being removed from ninth grade biology textbooks and that...

Turkey transfers 1,600-year-old Syriac churches, properties to Diyanet

Turkish authorities have transferred the ownership of churches, houses of worship and cemeteries that have belonged to the Syriac community for over 1,600 years...

Minister: Compensation from Israel paid to Mavi Marmara victims

Turkey's Finance Minister Naci Ağbal has announced that compensation paid by Israel to Turkey last year for victims of the Mavi Marmara flotilla has...

ECtHR fines Turkey for violating Alevis’ freedom of faith

Turkey has been ordered to pay 54,400 euros in damages by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to the Cem Foundation for violating...

Brigade commander in Manisa dismissed over food poisoning incidents

Brigade Commander Col. Şevki Güvenç has been removed from his post over the food poisoning of more than 1,000 soldiers in Manisa in the...

20 officers arrested over Gülen links in Konya-based coup probe

Twenty military officers were arrested on Friday as part of a Konya-based investigation targeting alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in the military,...

CHP official given suspended sentence for insulting Erdoğan

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy provincial chairman of Batman province Hüseyin Yaşar has been handed down a suspended prison sentence of 11 months, 20...

[VIDEO] Ruling AKP member threatens main opposition leader with death

Emrullah Kavuz, a local member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has, along with others, threatened main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP)...

Another post-coup victim abducted in broad daylight in Turkey

Murat Okumuş, a 40-year-old accountant who was a manager at the government-closed Şifa University Hospital in Izmir, has been abducted, marking the second forced...

‘Hero’ who halted 5 tanks during Turkish coup turns out to be fake

Zafer Onaran, who was covered in the media as “the hero who stopped five tanks” after a failed coup in Turkey on July 15,...

Report: Turkey resumes illegal abductions, enforced disappearances

A new study has revealed that the Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of...

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