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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...

AKP-MHP working on election-related legislation while seemingly reluctant to heed calls for early election

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) are seemingly uninterested in snap elections proposed by opposition parties...

İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu hospitalized after positive coronavirus test

İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Saturday announced on social media that he has been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19 and registering a fever. Sharing...

Lower court can’t defy top court ruling to retry ex-MP: Turkish parliament speaker

Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Şentop has criticized a decision by an İstanbul court to disregard a ruling by the Constitutional Court (AYM) for the...

Turkish president confirms S-400 tests, draws further US condemnation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday confirmed that the Turkish military recently conducted a missile-firing exercise with S-400 advanced air-defense system it has...

Exclusive: Inmate tortured to death in Turkish prison, brother claims

Cevheri Güven “My brother was tortured to death in a cell where he was kept alone,” Hakan Tumay, brother of Serkan Tumay, who recently died...

Police detain 4 HDP provincial and district co-chairs in Diyarbakır

Turkish police have detained the Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs and Yenişehir district co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) following a raid on the...

Turkey’s 2021 budget to include substantial increase in defense, security spending

The Turkish government budget for 2021, which has been submitted to parliament for approval, includes a huge increase in security-related spending and amounts in...

Turkey will send soldiers if Azerbaijan asks: Turkish vice president

Turkey will not hesitate to send soldiers in the event Azerbaijan asks for help in the conflict over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish...

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