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Doors to courtyard locked in Silivri Prison on night of İstanbul quake

A request from jailed journalist Ahmet Altan to the administration of Silivri Prison in İstanbul to leave the doors to the courtyard unlocked after...

Journalist claims Babacan will be opposition’s presidential candidate

A journalist from Habertürk TV has claimed that former Justice and Development Party (AKP) heavyweight Ali Babacan will run as the joint presidential candidate...

Erdoğan sparks controversy with photos showing him shopping in supermarket

Many social media users in Turkey have approached with skepticism photos that made their way to media outlets on Sunday showing Turkish President Recep...

Opposition deputy demands investigation into Uzbek woman’s death in AKP deputy’s house

Sera Kadıgil, a Turkish opposition deputy, has brought the death of Nadira Kadirova, a 23-year-old Uzbek national who was working as a maid in the house...

Turkey wastes up to 40 pct of annual food production: report

Turkey wastes food worth $37.7 billion per year, losing or wasting 25 to 40 percent of the vegetables it produces annually, the Ahval news agency reported,...

Seven, including 5 Turkish children, dead after boat capsized in Aegean

Seven people, including five children, died Friday after their inflatable dinghy capsized off the islet cluster of Oinousses in the eastern Aegean, the Ekathimerini news website...

Erdoğan’s AKP membership seen sliding further as dissent grows: report

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) faces more defections after losing 840,000 members in the last year, former loyalists say,...

Former intelligence official given 12-year jail sentence due to Gülen links

Basri Aktepe, a former National Intelligence Organization (MİT) official who was removed from his post in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016, has...

AKP deputy says Turkey went outside the law in trials of Gülen followers, purge victims

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy Mustafa Yeneroğlu, who has recently been publicly criticizing the policies of his party, has said Turkey has gone...

Erdoğan, İstanbul mayor spar over number of post-quake assembly zones in city

In the wake of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook İstanbul on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said there are tens of thousands of post-earthquake...

Turkish pro-gov’t media tycoon presses charges against journalist over article

Serhat Albayrak, vice chairman of the board of directors at the pro-government Turkuvaz media group, has filed a lawsuit against government-critical journalist and academic Ceren Sözeri over...

Turkish scientist gets 15 months for revealing secret documents on public health

A Turkish court on Thursday handed down a 15-month prison sentence to Bülent Şık, a scientist and columnist, who was accused of revealing secret documents in...

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