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20,571 personnel purged from Turkish military since 2016 coup attempt

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has dismissed a total of 20,571 members from service for alleged ties to the Gülen movement since a failed...

Poll shows AKP vote hitting all-time low at 25 percent

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been ruling Turkey as a single-party government since 2002, would have had a nationwide vote of...

UPDATE: Turkey’s quake death toll rises to 91

The number of people who died in a powerful earthquake that hit the western Turkish of Ä°zmir on Friday has risen to 91, according...

Former AKP heavyweight dies of COVID-19

Burhan Kuzu, a professor of constitutional law who served in the Turkish Parliament for three terms from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP),...

3 and 14-year-old girls rescued from rubble in Ä°zmir three days after quake

Search and rescue teams in the Turkish Aegean province of Ä°zmir, hit by a powerful earthquake on Friday, pulled two girls, aged 3 and...

Turkish cleric on Erdoğan’s wanted list condemns attacks in France

Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric living in exile who is seen as an arch-nemesis by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has condemned recent attacks...

At least 12 dead, 419 injured in Turkey as magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Aegean Sea

At least 12 people died and 419 were injured in Turkey’s western province of Izmir in a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck between the...

Turkey expands crackdown on folk music band famous for protest songs

Ankara’s crackdown on Grup Yorum, a folk collective with rotating band members, is continuing to expand even after two of its members died as...

Soldiers stripped and handcuffed in barn after 2016 putsch bid acquitted of coup charges

Cevheri Güven Mutlu Gülerce, one of a group of soldiers kept handcuffed and stripped down to their underwear in a barn after an attempted coup...

Turkey sentences US consulate employee to 5 years in prison on terror charges

A court on Tuesday sentenced Nazmi Mete Cantürk, a Turkish security officer at the US Consulate General in İstanbul, to more than five years...

Amnesty calls on Turkey to end criminalization of dissent

Human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has called on the Turkish government to adopt a new anti-terrorism law to put an end to arbitrary...

Ankara’s narrative on the killing of Russian envoy debunked, rights monitor says

The Brussels-based nongovernmental organization Solidarity with OTHERS has reviewed the indictment in a trial concerning the assassination of a Russian ambassador to Turkey, presenting...

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