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Court reduces sentence of 78-year-old for insulting Turkish president to 7 years

A Turkish appeals court has reversed a lower court sentence of eight years, two months in prison for 78-year-old Ali Ergin Güran and handed...

Brother of Fethullah Gülen sentenced 10 years, 6 months in prison by Turkish court

A younger brother of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Islamic cleric who is accused of orchestrating a 2016 coup in Turkey, was sentenced on Monday...

Gunman who assaulted Turkish journalist sentenced to 10 months in prison

The Turkish court overseeing the case of an armed assault against journalist Can Dündar has sentenced Murat Şahin, one of three suspects in the...

Yet another German citizen arrested in Turkey on ErdoÄŸan insult charges

A German citizen of Turkish origin, Hüseyin M., who travelled to Turkey for vacation, has been arrested on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep...

Turkey’s 65+ age group reaches 8.5 percent of total population

Turkey’s elderly population, comprising people aged 65 and older, now constitutes 8.5 percent of the entire population, according to data released on Monday by...

Governor meets with Syrian community leaders in Şanlıurfa to defuse tensions

Abdullah Erin, the governor of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, on Sunday met with leading figures from the Syrian community in the city to...

Trustee changes Kurdish neighborhood names in Mardin to Turkish

The Kızıltepe Municipality in southeastern Mardin province has changed the Kurdish names of three neighborhoods to Turkish names, the T24 news website reported. The municipality...

Turkish prosecutors issue 47 detention warrants for alleged ByLock use

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday issued detention warrants for 47 people over their suspected use of the ByLock mobile phone messaging...

20,000 people in Turkey detained over Gülen links in last 9 months

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 461 people were detained over the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...

Journalist Dündar vows to quit profession if Erdoğan proves him a spy

Turkish journalist Can Dündar has promised to quit journalism if Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proves his claim that Dündar is a spy, the...

Turkey’s high court orders state to pay academic who received death threats $4,500 in damages

The Turkish Constitutional Court has ordered the state to pay Professor Baskın Oran TL 27,000 ($4,500) in damages due to the lack of an...

3 Ä°stanbul airport construction workers arrested for protesting late shuttles

Three more workers from İstanbul’s new airport construction site were arrested on Friday because they were protesting delayed rush hour shuttles, the Evrensel daily...

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