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İstanbul city council slashes new mayor’s borrowing limit

İstanbul’s city council has downscaled a borrowing request made by newly elected Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Sözcü newspaper reported on Friday. The borrowing limit granted was TL 1.525...

Turkish prosecutors seek up to 870 years in prison for religious cult leader

İstanbul prosecutors have concluded their investigation into a religious cult led by Adnan Oktar, completing an indictment that demands up to 870 years in prison for its...

New İstanbul mayor welcomes prominent Kurdish football team

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the newly elected mayor of İstanbul, has received executives from Amedspor, a football club based in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, the Bold Medya news website...

Social media figure sentenced to 6 years for promoting drug use

A Turkish court on Friday handed down a five-year, 10-month sentence to Pınar Karagöz, a popular social media influencer known as “Pucca,” on charges of promoting...

Detention warrants issued for 49 gendarmerie officers over Gülen ties

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 49 gendarmerie officers, 46 of whom are on active duty, due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement,...

9 Turkish judges, prosecutors suspended over alleged Gülen links

Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has suspended nine judges and prosecutors from their posts due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is...

Justice Ministry working to reinstate passports of some 150,000 purge victims

Turkey’s Justice Ministry is working on a regulation to reinstate the passports of 150,000 public servants whose travel documents were cancelled after they were purged from their...

Kurdish woman fined for failing to respond to TurkStat survey in Turkish

A Kurdish woman in the eastern Turkish province of Batman has been fined TL 1,055 for failing to answer questions in a public survey...

Top court rules rights violation in case of former prosecutor who was denied to attend brother’s funeral

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there was a violation of rights in the case of a former prosecutor who was denied the opportunity...

Veteran journalist put in prison after losing appeal of terrorist propaganda verdict

Journalist Hüseyin Aykol was put in prison on Thursday after a regional appeals court upheld a three-year, nine-month prison sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda. Aykol was one...

Turkey says it killed nearly 3,800 PKK terrorists over 2 years: report

Close to 3,800 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been killed in some 230,000 counterterrorism operations conducted by Turkey’s security forces in the last two-and-a-half years, according...

Turkish libraries held some 69.3 mln volumes in 2018: statistical authority

Libraries across Turkey held nearly 69.3 million books as of the end of 2018, the country's statistical authority reported on Thursday, according to the state-run Anadolu...

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