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Dismissed top editor of Zaman: We should have kept our distance from AKP government

Journalist Abdulhamit Bilici, who was dismissed as editor-in-chief of Zaman following the brutal seizure of Turkey’s largest media group on March 4, 2016, said...

AKP’s Austria head says rejection of executive presidency would lead to civil war

In a video shared online the representative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Austria Mahmut Koç says if the transition to...

Local governor detained over Gülen links

A local governor in the Hayrabolu district of Tekirdağ province was detained on Saturday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, as part of...

Dentist couple faces up to 15 years in jail over Gülen links

Dentist Ali İlker Baştan and his wife Esma Kuriş Baştan, also a dentist, face up to 15 years' imprisonment for alleged links to the...

[UPDATE] Şanlıurfa car bomb attack kills 2, injures 11

A car bomb that exploded in Şanlıurfa on Friday night killed two and injured 11 others, Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu announced on Saturday. A...

Erdoğan says voting ‘no’ for executive presidency is consenting to evil

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that voting "no" in a referendum that would introduce an executive presidency in Turkey would mean consenting to evil,...

Deputy public prosecutor: No offense, but ‘no’ voters in referendum to be treated as PKK members

Antalya Deputy Public Prosecutor Cevdet Kayafoğlu tweeted on Friday that those who vote “no” in an upcoming referendum for a constitutional amendment package which...

Police detain 21 women whose husbands are jailed over Gülen links

Twenty-one women, including 10 with newborn infants and two over 70 years of age, were detained in Afyon's Dinar district as part an investigation...

Mosque construction in İstanbul’s Taksim Square begins

Construction of a controversial mosque in İstanbul's Taksim Square began on Friday in a ceremony attended by İstanbul Mayor Kadiş Topbaş. On Feb. 6, İstanbul’s...

Gov’t-appointed mayor asks staff to vote ‘yes’ in upcoming referendum

The mayor of Diyarbakır’s Sur Municipality, who replaced a mayor from the Pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) as part of a government decision in September,...

Men accused of attempting to rape 6 teachers: We thought they were Gülen followers

Three suspects accused of attempting to rape six female teachers in İzmir told a court they “wanted to force” the teachers to leave town...

Former prosecutors, judge overseeing Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network detained in İstanbul

Former judge Dursun Ali Gündoğdu and prosecutors Adnan Çimen and Sadrettin Sarıkaya, who had overseen an investigation into the Iran-backed Tevhid-Selam network in Turkey...

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