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Canadian imam held in solitary confinement in Turkey for months, wife says

The wife of a Calgary imam told The Globe and Mail daily on Tuesday that her husband has been held in solitary confinement in...

13 teachers detained, 27 others arrested in Turkey over links to Gülen movement

Turkish police detained a total of 13 high school teachers in Kayseri, while another 27 have been arrested by courts in Nevşehir and Elazığ...

Turkish minister calls on people to sell their foreign currency

Turkish Minister of Development Lütfi Elvan called on people on Sunday not to invest in foreign currency but to sell it off as the...

2 soldiers critically wounded in ISIL attack

Two Turkish soldiers sustained critical injuries in an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Syria on Sunday, DHA reported. According to...

Local AKP politician mocks ‘suicides’ in prisons as death toll reaches 25

A local Justice and Development Party (AKP) politician in İstanbul mocked the increasing number of suspicious deaths of political prisoners in Turkey following a...

‘Erdoğan is hope of Mexican drug baron victims, too’

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth leader has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the hope of children oppressed by drug barons in...

CHP leader slams controversial bill concerning rapists marrying child victims

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has harshly criticized a government-sponsored bill seeking to free more than 4,000 inmates...

Erdoğan says disillusioned with US policy during Obama’s term in office

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a TV interview that he has become disillusioned with US policy during the administration of outgoing US...

Court arrests 20 DBP members including Mardin provincial co-chair

Twenty out of 31 Democratic Regions Party (DBP) members in the southeastern province of Mardin who had been detained last week were arrested on...

Turkish journalists Dündar, Gül receive PEN’s Hermann Kesten Award

The German office of PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, has given the Hermann Kesten Award to former Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet daily Can Dündar...

[UPDATE] 70 academics detained at Yıldız Teknik University over Gülen links

As many as 70 academics including professors, associate professors and research assistants from the İstanbul-based Yıldız Teknik University were detained following raids on Friday...

PACE delegation to visit Turkey to assess post-coup developments

An ad hoc sub-committee of the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), chaired by Mogens Jensen, will...

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