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Local NGOs urge Georgian gov’t to avoid returning Turkish teacher back home

Eight nongovernmental organizations have called on the Georgian government to refrain from returning a detained Turkish teacher back home where “he will be possibly...

Turkish man sent to jail after forced return from Myanmar

Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish national working for two schools established by followers of the Gülen movement in Myanmar, was forcibly returned to Turkey...

Detention warrants issued for 47 at 2 ministries over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has issued detention warrants for 30 people working at the Education Ministry and for 17 others at the...

Former deputy PM Arınç’s son-in-law arrested over Gülen links

Ekrem Yeter, the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, was arrested by a court after his detention in Ankara early Monday as...

Metropoll’s Sencar taken to Tekirdağ for interrogation over Gülen links

Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar, who was detained on Saturday, has been taken to Tekirdağ province as...

İstanbul phase of main coup trial adjourned until August

The trial of 24 people who are accused of leading a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 that is being held...

Interior Ministry: 48 PKK militants neutralized in one week

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 48 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been neutralized in 548 operations...

35 more gendarmerie officers detained over Gülen links

Thirty-five gendarmerie officers were detained on Monday as part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting people linked with the faith-based Gülen movement, which the government...

Turkey to revoke citizenship of 130 abroad including Gülen, HDP deputies

Turkey's Interior Ministry has released a list of 130 people who are currently abroad including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and two deputies from the...

California passes bill banning investment in Turkey over denial of ‘Armenian genocide’

The California State Assembly has passed a bill that prohibits two state bodies from making additional or new investments, or renewing existing investments, in Turkey...

Ruling AKP complains of slow progress in coup trials, executives to attend hearing

The ruling Justice and Development Party is frustrated with the slow progress of trials concerning a failed coup attempt last summer and will send...

Turkey says US-backed Raqqa operation started Friday night

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Sunday that a pre-planned offensive to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in...

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