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Turkish-Iranian gold trader Zarrab receives treatment for depression in US jail

Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who was arrested in Miami in March for violating US sanctions on Iran, has reportedly been diagnosed with...

Suicide bomber in last week’s İstanbul attack identified

The identity of one of the terrorists who carried out twin bomb attacks in İstanbul on Saturday has been identified as 20-year-old Burak Yavuz,...

Milliyet’s owner cancels paper’s traditional media award

The owner of one of Turkey’s oldest newspapers, the Milliyet daily, has cancelled a media award that has been bestowed annually to commemorate the...

Turkey censors textbooks that include word ‘Pennsylvania’

As part of an ongoing purge of anything that could remotely be associated with Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed...

Man who turned Gülen’s poems into songs detained in Antalya

A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained...

 [OPINION] Embassies no longer safe in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The combination of both the deliberately ratcheted-up, vitriolic anti-Western diatribe by Turkey’s Islamist rulers and a surge in xenophobic incidents on the...

School principal arrested on charges of sexual abuse of 9 students

A high school principal in the Black Sea province of Bolu who was detained on suspicion of sexually harassing nine female high school students...

Retired military prosecutor warns TSK will stage coup if national unity not maintained

Ahmet Zeki Uçok, a retired military prosecutor with the Air Forces Command, has warned from his personal Twitter account that the Turkish Armed Forces...

Turkish police beat human rights lawyer while under detention

Turkish human rights lawyer Tugay Bek, under detention for the past four days, was battered by police officers when he resisted efforts to handcuff...

Police detain SE district co-mayors from pro-Kurdish DBP

The co-mayors of Batman’s Gercüş district, Zeynep Oduncu and Abdülkerim Kaya from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), who had been replaced by trustees...

Indictment against HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ accepted by court

A court in eastern Van province on Thursday accepted an indictment against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ, who was detained by police...

Handcuffed Kurdish co-mayor refuses medical examination

Prominent Kurdish politician and Co-mayor of Mardin Ahmet Türk, who has been jailed since Nov, 24, reportedly refused to be taken to a hospital...

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