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OKC’s Enes Kanter tweets stranded in Romania after Turkish gov’t cancels passport

Oklahoma City Thunder center Enes Kanter’s passport has been seized by Romanian police at Henri Coanda Airport upon a request from the Turkish government,...

9 pct overcapacity in Turkish prisons forces inmates to sleep in shifts

Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Basri Bağcı has informed Parliament that Turkish prisons are currently 9 percent over capacity, saying that some inmates have to...

Sözcü publishes blank daily to protest gov’t operation

The Sözcü daily on Saturday published a totally blank edition to protest detention warrants issued the previous day for its owner and three of...

Teacher, lawyer go missing in new wave of post-coup disappearances

Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining...

Erdoğan: We will write our glorious history the way it was

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said he will change the curriculum at schools and rewrite Turkey’s glorious past in textbooks, the state-run Anadolu...

Mother of educator on hunger strike detained by police

The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree in the...

Trustee removes name of slain Kurdish activist Elçi from park in Van

Hacı Asım Akgül, a trustee appointed by the government to Van's Çatak Municipality, has removed the name of former Diyarbakır Bar Association head and...

French journalist waiting to be deported in prison cell for 10 days

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province, has been waiting to...

Kılıçdaroğlu says operation against Sözcü is an operation against Turkey

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has lashed out the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government for an operation...

HDP deputy Öztürk detained at İstanbul airport

Berdan Öztürk, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was detained at İstanbul's Atatürk Airport in the early hours of Friday upon...

Detention warrants issued for Sözcü daily owner, 3 employees over Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has issued detention warrants for the owner of leading opposition newspaper Sözcü as well as three of its...

Erdoğan slams TÜSİAD on EU and state of emergency calls

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday rebuffed the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (TÜSİAD) for their calls on the government to push the...

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