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Turkey detains pro-Kurdish party officials, renowned rights activist

Turkish police on Friday detained dozens of pro-Kurdish party officials and a renowned human rights activist, as prosecutors increase the pressure on the country's...

Former President Gül criticizes move to ban HDP, expulsion of MP from parliament

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül on Thursday criticized a recent move by a prosecutor asking the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

Ankara mayor breaks national Twitch record with 362K live viewers on stream

Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavaş broke the national viewing record for a stream on Twitch, the Amazon-owned platform known for broadcasting video game play, on...

75 former and currently serving police officers face detention due to alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 75 currently serving, retired and dismissed police officers over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, according...

Turkey rebuffs criticism of crackdown on pro-Kurdish party

Turkey on Thursday told foreign countries to keep out of its domestic affairs after Washington warned Ankara against attempts to shut down the main...

Erdoğan ally re-elected as chairman of ultranationalist MHP

Delegates from Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) re-elected the party's current leader, Devlet Bahçeli, as chairman in an uncontested election, Turkish media reported...

Move to ban HDP sparks criticism from Turkey’s opposition figures

A recent move by a Turkish prosecutor asking the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest group in...

Turkey’s central bank hikes main interest rate to 19 pct

Turkey's central bank on Thursday sharply hiked its main interest rate to 19 percent to counter rising inflation and the dropping value of the...

MP Gergerlioğlu’s expulsion from parliament sparks global outrage

Turkish dissidents, members of the European Parliament and prominent rights activists around the globe have condemned Ankara's expulsion of opposition MP and prominent human...

Court releases 2 Boğaziçi students from pre-trial detention in case involving Kaaba poster

An İstanbul court has released two Boğaziçi University students from pre-trial detention in the first hearing of a case in which they, along with...

Turkish prosecutor asks top court to ban pro-Kurdish HDP

A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), parliament's third-largest group, Agence France-Presse reported. President...

Turkish journalist briefly detained over cartoon tweet

A columnist for a top Turkish opposition daily was briefly detained on Wednesday over a tweet of a cartoon depicting a janitor appearing to...

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