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Turkey’s top judicial body demands names of judges, prosecutors who unlawfully arrested Kavala

The Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), Turkey’s top judicial body, has demanded the names of judges and prosecutors involved in court decisions to...

Turkey denies coronavirus testing to contacts without symptoms

Individuals who have been in contact with persons who tested positive for the coronavirus will be denied testing if they are exhibiting no symptoms...

Foreign COVID-19 patients traveling to Turkey in private air ambulances for treatment

At a time when Turkey’s hospitals and healthcare workers are overwhelmed by a surge in the number of coronavirus patients, Turkey has been accepting...

63,000 people prosecuted on Erdoğan insult charges over 5 years

Cases were launched into a total of 63,041 people on charges of insulting the president over the past five years, beginning with the election...

Deputy mayor suspended due to alleged use of PKK symbols in İstanbul playground

Süleyman Gevezoğlu, the deputy mayor of İstanbul's Küçükçekmece District Municipality, was suspended after prosecutors launched an investigation into the design of a playground in...

Nationwide support for AKP below 30 percent: MetroPoll survey

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been ruling Turkey as a single-party government since 2002, would have had a nationwide vote of...

Turkey allegedly granted citizenship to fugitive Moldovan oligarch wanted for large-scale fraud

Vladimir Plahotniuc, the former leader of the Democratic Party (PDM) who is wanted in Moldova for forming an organized crime group, involvement in the...

Right to a fair trial trampled by Turkish courts: opposition deputy

More than half of the cases in which Turkey's top court ruled that the defendant's rights had been violated involved denial of the right...

Formerly Gülen-linked schools in Albania face growing gov’t pressure

Several schools formerly run by the Gülen movement in Albania have been the subject of growing government pressure in recent weeks in the form...

Opposition MP: Death of 2 purge victims was due to criminal neglect of Turkey’s AKP

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has revealed that two civil servants who were previously removed from their jobs as part...

Former TV anchorman faces up to 15 years in prison on terrorism charges

An indictment drafted by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks a prison sentence of up to 15 years for Erkan Akkuş, a former anchorman at the...

Turkish court acquits cooperating lawyer for German Embassy of espionage charges

An Ankara court has acquitted of espionage charges a Turkish lawyer who worked as a cooperating lawyer for the German Embassy in Ankara, the...

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