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845 people detained to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday announced that 845 people have been detained on terror charges due to their protests or posts on social media...

Family of visually impaired journalist says his whereabouts are unknown

The family of visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who has been jailed over alleged ties to the Gülen movement since July 10, 2017,...

13 Kimse Yok Mu aid foundation officials detained over Gülen links

Detention warrants were issued for 21 people by the Anatolia Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday on accusations that they were linked to the...

Turkey condemns Netherlands for recognizing 1915 killings as genocide

Turkey on Thursday condemned the Dutch parliament's decision to recognize the massacre of Armenians in 1915 as genocide, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. "We...

Netherlands recognizes 1915 incidents as Armenian genocide

The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a motion recognizing the massacre of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 during the final days...

‘Merciless, unjust and unfair,’ author Pamuk says of conviction of journalists

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, has criticized the aggravated life sentences handed down to six journalists including...

Prominent rights activist gets 2.5-year jail sentence on terror charges

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists and former president of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed...

Turkey arrests 16 HDP, HDK officials including prominent figure

Sixteen Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP) and Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) officials, including well-known figure Celalettin Can, who were detained in raids on their homes...

Investigation launched into imam questioning donations to mosques

Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into an imam who in a video message on social media three months ago raised questions about donations...

CHP leader slams life sentences handed down to prominent journalists

Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the handing down of aggravated life sentences to three prominent journalists...

Court releases journalist Kılınç subject to house arrest

The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court on Tuesday released journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was jailed on March 5, 2017 over alleged links...

Erdoğan: Turkey foiled Syrian move into Afrin after Putin talks

Turkey thwarted a possible deployment of Syrian government troops into the northwest Afrin region after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip...

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