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Turkey detains 5 more Kurdish co-mayors from HDP

As part of an expanding crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), five HDP district co-mayors have been detained in the eastern...
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Turkish university student commits suicide by ingesting cyanide

A 21-year old university student committed suicide in the northwestern province of Sakarya by taking a dose of cyanide shortly after Turkish authorities banned the public...
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ErdoÄŸan ally withdraws amnesty bill from consideration in parliament

Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), an ally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has decided to withdraw a bill granting amnesty to nearly 160,000...
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Ankara lawyers subjected to intimidation, threats in prison meeting with purge victim

Lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association say they were intimidated by management and threatened by guards at Sincan Prison, where they went to meet with four...
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Religious community leader released pending trial after 22 months

Alparslan Kuytul, the head of a religious community critical of the Turkish government, was released pending trial on Thursday after 22 months of incarceration, the Turkish...
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Turkey arrests 2 more journalists on terrorism charges

Sadiye Eser and Sadık Topaloğlu, two reporters for the Mezopotamya news agency, have been arrested on terrorism charges, the agency reported. The journalists were detained on Nov....
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Advisor to nationalist leader suggests vandalizing Gülen movement members’ houses

A chief advisor to Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has called for the vandalizing of houses belonging to followers of the...
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457 sick inmates in Turkish prisons are in critical condition: rights lawyer

There are 1,333 ailing inmates in Turkish prisons, 457 of whom are in critical condition, according to Turkey’s Human Rights Foundation (İHD), the Cumhuriyet daily reported...
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Businessman gets life sentence for murder of 23-year-old university student

An Ankara court on Wednesday sentenced businessman Çağatay Aksu to life in prison for the murder of Şulet Çet, a 23-year-old university student whose death has...
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Turkey ranks 31st out of 37 countries in PISA academic success report

A report released every three years by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) has ranked Turkish students in 31st place out of 37 members of the...
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AKP deputies make U-turn after Erdoğan’s veto of law on thermal power plants

A number of Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies who supported a law that would have delayed the installation of filters on thermal power plants in...
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Jailed Kurdish politician has no life-threatening condition, hospital says

Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ, the imprisoned former co-leader of Turkey's Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who was taken to a hospital for an examination on Monday, nearly a...
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