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Erdoğan names PM advisor Ökem as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel

Turkey has appointed a foreign policy adviser to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, cementing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial,...

Erdoğan says Belgium a center for PKK militants and coup plotters

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday accused Belgium of being an important center for supporters of both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and...

Turkey detains three Kurdish mayors

Turkish police early on Wednesday detained one of the co-mayors of the eastern province of Siirt and the co-mayors of Tunceli province as part...

Turkish gov’t reportedly bans EP rapporteur Kati Piri from entering Turkey

The Turkish government has reportedly banned Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament, from entering Turkey following the release of an EP report harshly...

US attorney in Zarrab case submits graft documents that implicate former Turkish ministers

US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara on Tuesday submitted new documents to a court in the case of Iranian-Turkish...

Indictment: Turkish justice minister asked US attorney Bharara to release gold-trader Zarrab

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ, who recently met with his counterpart, Loretta Lynch, in Washington and told her that the prosecution of Turkish-Iranian gold-trader...

CHP leader says arrest of politicians in Turkey possible at any time

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said since Turkey's courts are no longer independent, it is possible for...

MHP expels deputy from party after remarks against executive presidency

The disciplinary board of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has expelled Gaziantep deputy Ümit Özdağ from the party after the deputy publicly announced his...

Bahçeli says AKP shared draft constitution with his party

  Amid debates over a change in constitution in accordance with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s determination to switch to a presidential system of governance, Nationalist...

Visitor ban imposed on HDP meeting after Western diplomats’ attendance

A ban on visitors at parliamentary group meetings of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was imposed this week after last week’s attendance of...

Freedom House : Turkey among ‘Not Free’ countries in Internet freedom

Turkey has fallen into the “not free” category of countries ranked by Freedom House in its "Freedom on the Net 2016" report, with the...

UN’s special rapporteur Kaye to visit Turkey to assess situation of freedom of expression

David Kaye, a clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, designated a special rapporteur by the United Nations Human Rights Council,...

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