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[VİDEO] Boğaziçi students ridicule Erdoğan’s refusal to appoint elected rector in video clip

Students from one of Turkey’s top universities prepared a video clip that makes fun of recent government decrees, canceling intra-university elections for university rectors...

5 pro-Kurdish HDP advisors detained in Turkey, denied access to legal counsel

  Turkish police have detained five advisors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party said in a statement on Friday. Underlining that the...

6-months pregnant woman with 13-month-old child held in overcrowded cell

Buket Büyükçelebi, a six-months-pregnant academic with a 13-month-old child has been kept in a 33-person holding cell in a Gaziantep prison for three months,...

94 more teachers, businesspeople arrested in Turkey purge

In Turkey’s relentless witch-hunt against perceived sympathizes of the Gülen movement, a total of 94 people were detained in a number of provinces on...

CHP expels 3,896 members who did not vote for party in Nov. 1 elections

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has expelled 3,896 of its members after discovering that they did not vote for the CHP in...

Şanlıurfa man sets himself on fire shouting ‘I am hungry’

According to reports in the Turkish media, a man in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on Thursday shouted "I am hungry" and set himself...

Teacher-turned-construction worker falls, awakens from coma with fractures

An İstanbul teacher of religious culture and moral knowledge has recently woken up from a months-long coma with multiple fractures as a result of...

Justice minister says 36,000 arrested over Gülen links so far

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has announced that a total of 36,000 people have been arrested so far in ongoing operations targeting alleged members...

236 arrested, 352 detained over coup charges in past 48 hours

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves hunted down and taken...

Turkish gov’t seizes money granted for arrested judge’s disabled children

Hacer Çakmak, the mother of three children, two of them disabled, and the wife of a Turkish judge who is currently under arrest, sent...

Journalist Baransu denied food on day of court hearing

Former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was imprisoned in March 2015 after he revealed an alleged government plan to “eliminate the Gülen movement”...

UN demands release of Turkish judge serving on war crimes panel

The United Nations has demanded the release of Turkish judge Aydın Sefa Akay, who is serving on the UN war crimes panel and was...

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