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Novelist Şafak on referendum: Democracy or almost absolute monopoly of power

Famed Turkish author Elif Şafak has said Turkey is at a crossroads and that this weekend’s referendum on a switch to an executive presidency...

Turkey completes 556 kilometer wall on border with Syria

Turkey on Tuesday declared that 556 kilometer (345,4 miles) wall on border with Syria was completed. According to a statement by Turkish Defense Ministry, the...

Erdoğan says Turkey should reinstate death penalty after referendum

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that the government should take reinstatement of capital punishment to Parliament for passage after an upcoming...

Erdoğan advisor: We can change new system in 3-5 years if it doesn’t work

Prof. Dr. Şükrü Karatepe, a top advisor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and one of the architects of a constitutional reform that seeks to...

Erdoğan likens his escape from putschists to Prophet’s protection from enemies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said just like the Prophet Muhammad was protected by a spider from his enemies who sought to kill...

PKK claims responsibility for Diyarbakır attack

The terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack on Tuesday in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır that took the lives...

Turkey to deport Italian journalist detained in Hatay

Turkish authorities will deport Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, who was detained during a security check in...

Court rules to acquit all suspects in Oda TV trial

An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled for the acquittal of all 13 suspects in the Oda TV case who were standing trial on charges...

Dutch minister says 20 Dutch-Turkish citizens not allowed to leave Turkey

Lilianne Ploumen, minister of foreign trade and development cooperation in the Netherlands, has said around 20 people who have both Dutch and Turkish citizenship...

Interior Minister says explosion in police compound in Diyarbakır a terror attack

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that an explosion which rocked a police compound in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Tuesday was...

CHP leader calls on Erdoğan to prove claims on contact with putschists

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday called on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to prove his claim that Kılıçdaroğlu had...

HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ sentenced to 1 year in prison on terror charges

Co-Chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of one year for disseminating the propaganda...

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