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Turkish police detain HDP spokesperson Baydemir

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir was detained in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Friday. A detention warrant was...

Erdoğan files criminal complaint against AEI’s Rubin on insult charges

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a...

One more expelled teacher beginning hunger strike for reinstatement to job

Nazife Onay, one of thousands of teachers who were expelled from their posts by government decrees in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt...

Fashion designer receives suspended sentence due to Twitter message

Fashion designer Barbaros Şansal has been handed down a suspended prison sentence of six months, 20 days due to a Twitter message he posted...

Closed DİHA journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır

Zekeriya Güzüpek, former head of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA’s Kurdish service, were...

3 soldiers, 2 PKK members killed in Diyarbakır

Three Turkish soldiers and two terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed during clashes in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Wednesday,...

Alleged head of ISIL in Turkey detained in İstanbul

Halis Bayancuk, also known as Abu Hanzala, the alleged Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader in Turkey, was detained in İstanbul...

27 academics expelled from İzmir-based university detained over Gülen links

Twenty-seven academics who were previously expelled from the İzmir-based 9 Eylül University through government decrees have been detained due to alleged links to the...

Detention warrant issued for HDP spokesperson Baydemir

A detention warrant has been issued for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir, Turkish media reports said on Tuesday. It...

Turkey grants consular access to jailed German journalist Tolu

Turkish authorities granted permission to German consular officers to visit German-Turkish journalist Meşale Tolu, who has been under arrest in pre-trial detention since April...

AKP forms new executive body under Erdoğan’s leadership

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) held an executive body meeting on Monday and named the party's new administrators under the leadership of...

French journalist ends hunger strike after meeting with embassy official

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 after photographing the local scenery in Turkey’s southeastern Batman province and went on a...

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