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12 defendants given aggravated life sentences in main coup trial in Ä°stanbul

An Ä°stanbul court on Tuesday handed down aggravated life sentences to 12 defendants including four generals on charges of violating the constitution due to...

Opposition parties warm to holding early presidential election  

A suggestion made on Tuesday by leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli to hold a presidential election slated for November 2019...

Critical writer Eliaçık sentenced to 6 years, 3 months on terror charges

Renowned Islamic theologian and writer İhsan Eliaçık has been sentenced to six years, three months in prison on charges of disseminating the propaganda of...

Erdoğan’s AKP to consider possibility of early presidential election

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party will discuss the possibility of holding Turkey’s presidential election in August, more than a year earlier than planned,...

Police inform family that man abducted 133 days ago is in custody

Ãœmit Horzum, a former civil servant who was removed from his job at the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) by a decree issued last year...

Thousands of CHP supporters hold sit-in protest in Taksim against OHAL

Thousands of supporters of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans to...

702 detained in one week over alleged Gülen links

A total of 702 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Turkish Interior...

[UPDATE] Turkish court rules to keep American pastor behind bars

A Turkish court ruled to keep in custody American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in October 2016 in Turkey on espionage and terror...

3 soldiers killed in PKK attack in Şırnak

Three soldiers were killed and one was injured in a clash with terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province...

Praising abductions, Erdoğan says Gülen will be brought to Turkey, too

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday praised the abduction of people allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...

Court rules to keep HDP’s Demirtaş in pretrial detention

The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court ruled on Friday for a continuation of the imprisonment of Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish...

3 more Boğaziçi students arrested over Afrin criticism

Three of four Boğaziçi University students who were detained for their views critical of Turkey's operation in the Afrin region of Syria have been...

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