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[UPDATE] Two HDP deputies released after brief detention

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Yıldırım were released on Wednesday after a brief detention as part of a crackdown on...

CHP’s İnce: CHP deputies will be jailed just like HDP deputies

A vocal critic of his own party, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce said on Wednesday that CHP deputies will be...

Detention warrants issued for 52 purged Supreme Court of Appeals members

As part of an ongoing purge in Turkey, detention warrants were issued on Wednesday for 52 dismissed members of the country’s Supreme Court of...

Erdoğan advisor: New system is not one-man rule, but one-man government

One of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisors, lawyer Mehmet Uçum, said that a switch to an executive presidency in Turkey will not bring...

Turkey plunges from 66th to 75th place in TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2016

Global watchdog Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 on Wednesday in which Turkey plunged to 75th from 66th place among 176...

Interior Ministry responds to AI report: Measures in Sur ‘legitimate and proportionate’

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has responded to a report by Amnesty International on tens of thousands of residents who were forced to leave their homes...

[VIDEO] Police attempt to detain university students singing ‘Say No in Referendum’ song

Police officers attempted to detain university students who sang a song on a ferry criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarian policies and calling on...

Retired on disability, former bomb disposal expert kept in jail for a month over Gülen links

Bilal Konakçı, a former bomb disposal expert for the İzmir Police Department who was retired after he lost his right hand and both eyes...

‘Unskilled worker’ dismissed over alleged coup involvement

Worker Mehmet Fidan is among 367 people who were dismissed from state institutions with new government decrees – 682, 683, 684 and 685 –...

Gov’t-backed mayor removes Armenian greeting from town sign

The new mayor of the Edremit district of Van province, who was recently appointed by the Turkish government in place of the democratically elected...

Former Turkish officer at NATO: Coup attempt was never meant to succeed

A former Turkish officer who served at NATO headquarters in Brussels but was sacked and recalled to Turkey as part of an investigation into...

Court releases 43 Air Force Academy students accused of coup involvement

An Ankara court on Tuesday released from pretrial detention 43 students of the Air Force Academy who were arrested on charges of involvement in...

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