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Turkey bans books from outside in prisons other than Quran

Turkey's Justice Ministry banned newspapers and books from outside except for the Quran for prisoners as of Jan. 9, according to a tweet from...

Prominent businessman Verdal Hosta detained over Gülen links

Turkish police have detained prominent Turkish businessman Verdal Hosta as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged followers of the Gülen movement, the Habertürk...

[OPINION] Turkey named and shamed by Open Government Partnership

Abdullah Bozkurt Who could have known that Turkey, touted as a secular and democratic Muslim nation with a vibrant civil society in 2011, when the...

IPI slams Turkish justice minister for calling imprisoned journalists ‘criminals’

In a strong statement issued on Friday, the International Press Institute (IPI) called recent remarks of Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ about imprisoned journalists...

Report: 89 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Norway in 2016

A Norwegian newspaper reported on Friday that 89 Turkish citizens had applied for asylum in Norway in 2016, including military officers and diplomats, saying...

2 Doğan Holding executives released on judicial probation

The chief legal advisor and the former chief executive of Turkey’s largest media conglomerate, Doğan Holding, who were detained in police raids on Jan....

AKP men advised to have polygamous marriages with wives of jailed Gülen followers

Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK) representative in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg Hasan Güray Özüyer has said the Justice and Development Party's...

Erdoğan’s spokesman slams CENTCOM for sharing statement of Syrian Kurd militia

İbrahim Kalın, spokesperson for Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, slammed the US military on Thursday after it posted a tweet sharing a statement from...

Columnist claims ex-PM Davutoğlu’s brother briefly detained over alleged Gülen links

The brother of former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was allegedly detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

4 soldiers arrested in connection with Kayseri car bomb attack

As part of an investigation into a car bomb attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri that killed 14 soldiers, four soldiers were...

Erdoğan tells opposition objecting to presidential system to know their place

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed opposition parties that object to a constitutional reform package seeking to introduce a presidential system in Turkey,...

Erdoğan’s former security manager arrested over Gülen links

A former police chief who served as security manager for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan when he was prime minister has been arrested in Antalya...

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