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Turkey detains another 15 academics over use of ByLock app

Fifteen academics who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were detained on Saturday as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

2 more Gülen relatives detained in Sakarya witch-hunt

Sakarya police on Saturday detained two more relatives of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen on charges of alleged membership in a terrorist organization. The Turkish government...

Turkish gov’t seizes furniture chain Alfemo over alleged Gülen links

A panel of trustees on Saturday was appointed to furniture chain Alfemo due to alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Report: Turkey detains 50 Nigerian students in Istanbul

More than 50 Nigerian students were detained on Friday in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the government, the Thisday news website has reported. According...

ByLock app users to be tried on terrorism charges

The pro-government media in Turkey reported on Saturday that individuals arrested for using a smart phone application named ByLock in the wake of a...

146 arrested, 233 detained over coup charges on Friday

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

Businessman files complaint against Moody’s for downgrading Turkey’s rating

Abdulmutalip Çiçek, a businessman from Turkey’s southern province of Gaziantep, on Friday filed a complaint against international credit rating firm Moody’s after the firm...

3 Kurdish mayors in Şanlıurfa need governor’s approval in decision making

  As part of the trend of appointing trustees to predominantly Kurdish towns in Turkey’s Southeast, the governor of Şanlıurfa is now requiring three local...

Greece: Turkish president’s remarks on islands ‘dangerous’ to relations

The office of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of endangering relations between the two neighboring countries by...

Deep hole appears in Topkapı Palace courtyard, raising concerns

  A hole measuring three meters in diameter has appeared in a courtyard of the historic Topkapı Palace in İstanbul, raising concerns about the palace's...

Minister says women’s most important asset is motherhood

Youth and Sports Minister Akif Çağatay Kılıç has said the most important asset of women is motherhood, adding that motherhood is the “greatest and...

Turkish army to join other state bodies in setting up purge commissions

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) is set to follow the example of numerous other state institutions that have established commissions to cleanse those public...

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