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Former Ergenekon suspect joins ruling AKP after resigning from opposition parties

Mehmet Ali Çelebi, a former lieutenant who was a defendant in the trial of the clandestine Ergenekon organization, has joined the ruling Justice and...

Court annuls conviction of jailed journalist Baransu in war plan trial

A regional appeals court in İstanbul has reversed the conviction and 13-year prison sentence handed down to an investigative journalist who has been behind...

50 percent of Turks think their lifestyle is under threat: poll

Fifty percent of Turks think their lifestyle is under threat, according to the results of a recent public survey. Metropoll’s “Turkey’s Pulse” survey, conducted in...

Venice Commission recommends Turkey not enact controversial article of ‘disinformation’ bill

The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters, has recommended in an “urgent joint opinion” with the Human Rights and...

Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another journalist in exile, reveals his home address

A pro-government daily has published a secretly taken photo of an investigative Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden and revealed his home address...

Greece and Egypt call Turkish-Libyan gas deal ‘illegal’

Egypt and Greece said Sunday that an agreement allowing Turkey to explore hydrocarbon deposits in Libyan waters in the Mediterranean was "illegal" and that...

[ANALYSIS] Erdoğan and Aliyev are selling Russian gas to Europe via TANAP

Fatih Yurtsever* The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project began with the signing of an agreement between Turkey and Azerbaijan on June 26, 2012 to...

Erdoğan pardons disabled bomb expert 20 months after his incarceration

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used his presidential power to pardon disabled former bomb disposal expert Bilal Konakçı nearly 20 months after he...

56 face detention over alleged Gülen links in separate investigations

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 56 people due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reporeted,...

CHP leader faces revocation of parliamentary immunity for playing leaked graft tapes in 2014 speech

A presidential decree including a summary of proceedings seeking the removal of the parliamentary immunity of Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for...

Turkey names former Jerusalem consul general as new ambassador to Israel

Turkey appointed Şakir Özkan Torunlar as its new ambassador to Israel late on Wednesday following a mutual decision taken last month to restore full...

RTÜK fines 3 TV stations for airing debates on crime boss’s corruption claims

Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has imposed a fine on three TV stations for airing debate programs during which the inner workings of an alleged corruption...

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