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Davutoğlu and team to declare assets prior to establishment of new party

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and his team will publicly declare their assets prior to the establishment of a new party, the Euronews website reported. Davutoğlu...

HDP says 6,000 party officials arrested since 2015

A total of 15,530 members of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been detained and 6,000 of them arrested since 2015, according to a report...

Overwhelming majority of Turkish LGBTs cannot reveal identity in workplace: study

An overwhelming majority of Turkish LGBTs cannot reveal their sexual orientation in the workplace -- 95.6 percent in the public sector and 83.6 percent in the...

Amnesty poll shows 82 percent of Turks believe human rights are under attack

More than 82 percent of the Turkish public thinks that people’s rights and freedoms are being violated, according to a poll conducted by MetroPoll at the...

Turkish ministry’s meddling in election may lead to end of Armenian Patriarchate: deputy

The Turkish Interior Ministry's meddling in the election of a new Armenian patriarch may lead to the end of the İstanbul Armenian Patriarchate, Garo Paylan, an...

Erdoğan implies Nobel laureate Pamuk is a ‘terrorist’

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday implied that Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is a “terrorist,” saying that the Nobel committee gave the prize to a “terrorist...

Despite the law, 2 more pregnant women arrested in Turkey over Gülen links

Although Turkish laws call for postponement of the arrest of pregnant women, Turkish courts on Monday sent two pregnant women to jail due to their alleged...

2 HDP co-mayors in Van arrested on terrorism charges

As part of an expanding crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), two HDP district co-mayors who were detained in an operation...

71 university rectors in Turkey have no international citations

The names of 71 university rectors in Turkey are not included in the citations of international scholarly publications, according to Professor Engin Karadağ, who heads the University...

Turkey blocked 288,310 websites in 14 years: report

Turkish authorities blocked access to a total of 288,310 websites between 2006 and October 2019, according to a report released by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD),...

Jailed Kurdish politician says health problems remain despite hospital visit

Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who has been in jail since November 2016, has said problems with his health remain...

Ruling AKP expels ex-deputy over ‘We don’t want Syrians’ tweet

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has terminated the membership of a former deputy who opposes granting citizenship to Syrian refugees and posted “We don’t...

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