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Kütahya Municipality’s controversial sex advice book draws ire of gov’t, opposition

Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz and main opposition deputies reacted adversely to a booklet distributed by the Kütahya Municipality, governed by the ruling Justice and...

Suicide bomber in last week’s İstanbul attack identified

The identity of one of the terrorists who carried out twin bomb attacks in İstanbul on Saturday has been identified as 20-year-old Burak Yavuz,...

Milliyet’s owner cancels paper’s traditional media award

The owner of one of Turkey’s oldest newspapers, the Milliyet daily, has cancelled a media award that has been bestowed annually to commemorate the...

Turkey censors textbooks that include word ‘Pennsylvania’

As part of an ongoing purge of anything that could remotely be associated with Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed...

Man who turned Gülen’s poems into songs detained in Antalya

A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained...

Belgian justice minister orders close scrutiny of Diyanet mosques amid spying claims

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens has announced that he has ordered security and intelligence units in the country to closely monitor mosques operated by...

School principal arrested on charges of sexual abuse of 9 students

A high school principal in the Black Sea province of Bolu who was detained on suspicion of sexually harassing nine female high school students...

Doğan Holding says representative arrested for buttoning jacket near Gülen

In the wake of the arrest of Doğan Holding Ankara representative Barbaros Muratoğlu over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement on Thursday, the...

33 detained in anti-ISIL operation in Konya

Thirty-three people have been detained for alleged links to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the central Turkish province...

Retired military prosecutor warns TSK will stage coup if national unity not maintained

Ahmet Zeki Uçok, a retired military prosecutor with the Air Forces Command, has warned from his personal Twitter account that the Turkish Armed Forces...

Turkey paid $36 million to Erdoğan’s son-in-law’s company for 6 UAVs

Some $36.77 million has been paid from the Turkish state budget to the Baykar Makina company, owned by the family of President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish police beat human rights lawyer while under detention

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past four days, was battered by police officers when he resisted efforts to handcuff...

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