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Kılıçdaroğlu slams government over human rights violations

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, at his party’s weekly meeting, brought up specific instances of human rights violations caused by...

Police storm offices of critical radio and TV stations, detain staff

Teams from the İstanbul Police Department on Tuesday stormed the offices of three media outlets that were recently removed from the Turkish Satellite Communications...

64 detained in Kayseri-based operation targeting Gülen sympathizers

Sixty-four people out of 78 for whom detention warrants were issued by the Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office over their alleged links to the...

33 military personnel detained over alleged Gülen links

Thirty-three military members from the Turkish Air Forces including high-ranking officers were detained on Tuesday as part of an operation targeting the Gülen movement,...

Judges, prosecutors accuse gov’t of eliminating dissidents under Gülen pretext

A number of judges and prosecutors who have been dismissed from their posts have accused the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of using its...

Turkish intelligence agency to be attached to President’s Office, report says

The Turkish government is working to restructure the country’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), planning to detach it from the Prime Minister’s Office and attach...

One-third of Turkish journalists lose jobs as gov’t tightens grip over media

The number of journalists in Turkey who have lost their jobs since a July 15 attempted coup has reached 3,000, bringing the total number...

Turkish police display books, CDs as evidence of terror in post-coup probes

Police in Muğla’s Ortaca district have joined their colleagues elsewhere in Turkey to display seized copies of books written by Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...

2 Turkish soldiers out of 8 who fled to Greece reapply for political asylum

Two members of the Turkish army out of eight who fled to Greece in a helicopter after a failed coup attempt on July 15...

Turkey suspends 12,801 police officers in latest purge

Turkey’s National Police Department announced late on Monday that it has suspended 12,801 more police officers, including many police chiefs, across 81 provinces over...

Islamic scholar Gülen dismisses accusations of a second coup

US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has dismissed media talk about a second coup attempt and allegations of the involvement of his followers in...

Turkish court paves way for controversial mining project

A regional administrative court in Rize on Monday dismissed a petition from lawyers for residents and environmental organizations to suspend the construction of a...

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