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Reza Zarrab prosecuted in Turkey for violating construction law in Bosporus mansion

İstanbul's Anadolu Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who has been held in a New York prison since...

3 neighborhood heads replaced by trustees in Diyarbakır over ‘terrorist propaganda’

The heads of three neighborhoods (mukhtar) in the Bismil district of Diyarbakır province were replaced by trustees appointed by the district governor's office on...

Prominent businessman Verdal Hosta detained over Gülen links

Turkish police have detained prominent Turkish businessman Verdal Hosta as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged followers of the Gülen movement, the Habertürk...

AKP deputy says presidential system will take revenge for last 200 years

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy, Metin Külünk, has said that the switch in Turkey to a presidential system would disable the...

IPI slams Turkish justice minister for calling imprisoned journalists ‘criminals’

In a strong statement issued on Friday, the International Press Institute (IPI) called recent remarks of Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ about imprisoned journalists...

Parliament approves article expanding executive powers of president

The Turkish Parliament on Friday passed three more articles of a constitutional amendment package, one of which significantly expands the powers of the president. Articles...

‘Terrorist propaganda’ complaints filed for 68,774 social media users in 6 months

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday that in the last six months alone authorities had received complaints from informants of “terrorist propaganda”...

Report: Reina attacker fled with son

Uzbek citizen Abdulgadir Masharipov, the prime suspect in the Reina nightclub massacre on Jan. 1, fled with his son, the Hürriyet newspaper reported. According to...

Jailed HDP deputy handed down 56 months in prison over terror charges

One of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Nursel Aydoğan, has been given a prison sentence of four years, eight...

2 Doğan Holding executives released on judicial probation

The chief legal advisor and the former chief executive of Turkey’s largest media conglomerate, Doğan Holding, who were detained in police raids on Jan....

Erdoğan says early election not desirable, but not unthinkable

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday early elections would not be out of the question if Parliament becomes unable to do its...

AKP men advised to have polygamous marriages with wives of jailed Gülen followers

Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK) representative in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg Hasan Güray Özüyer has said the Justice and Development Party's...

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