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UN orders Turkey to release judge arrested over alleged Gülen links

A United Nations legal panel has ordered Turkey to release a judge who is among thousands of people arrested over their alleged links to...

HDP spokesperson Bilgen arrested on terror charges

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and party spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen was arrested on terror charges on Tuesday, one day after his detention on...

14 nightclub attack suspects referred to court for arrest

Fourteen people who were detained in connection to a nightclub attack on New Year's Day in İstanbul that claimed the lives of 39 people...

Turkey’s population nears 80 million, İstanbul remains most crowded city

Turkey's population saw an increase of more than 1 million in 2016, reaching 79,814,871, while İstanbul remained the country's most populous city, according to...

Deputy PM says Trump’s Muslim ban unacceptable, humiliating

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesperson Numan Kurtulmuş has criticized a ban imposed by US President Donald Trump on travelers from seven Muslim-majority...

President Erdoğan, PM Yıldırım agree on April 9 for referendum

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım have agreed on April 9 for a referendum on a constitutional amendment package that...

[VIDEO] Mother of 5 children abandoned in parking lot released on high bail

A Turkish court on Monday released a housewife, a mother of five whose children were abandoned in a parking lot after her detention, on...

[UPDATE] HDP deputy Lezgin Botan released

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Lezgin Botan, who was detained on Monday as part of an ongoing crackdown on the Kurdish political movement in...

[VIDEO] Former TRT presenter arrested over Gülen links

Former TRT presenter Hamza Günerigök, who was on a list of suspects to be arrested in an investigation targeting the Gülen movement, was arrested...

[UPDATE] HDP deputies Bilgen, Beştaş detained on terror charges

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ayhan Bilgen and Meral Danış Beştaş were detained on terror charges on Monday night after a Diyarbakır court...

Justice minister slams EU countries for not extraditing alleged Gülen followers

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has criticized some EU countries for what he said was their failure to extradite alleged followers of the faith-based...

Indictment seeks up to 15 years jail for academics over Gülen links

An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of from seven-and-a-half to 15 years for 15 academics from the İstanbul-based Marmara...

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