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Activists met with tear gas, rubber bullets in Istanbul Pride parade

Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a crowd of gay rights groups and activists who had pressed ahead with the Istanbul...

Publicist arrested over election comment on social media

Hakan Aykut Nili, an advertising publicist, was arrested last week for a comment made on social media about the results of the June 24...

Turkish gov’t detains 15,190 over Gülen links in first half of 2018

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 777 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

Detention warrants issued for 68 military members over alleged Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday issued detention warrants for 19 active duty and 49 former military members as part of an...

Former intelligence chief Güven found dead in prison cell

Former police intelligence chief Zeki Güven was found dead on Sunday in his cell at Ankara's Sincan Prison, according to the state-run Anadolu news...

UNESCO adds Turkey’s Göbeklitepe to World Heritage List

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Sunday that the ancient settlement of Göbeklitepe in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province was inscribed...

Deputy PM: Turkey to adopt chemical castration for child abusers

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Sunday that Turkey would adopt chemical castration for child abusers after the brutal abuse and murder of...

Turkey closes German Embassy school in İzmir for ‘lacking a license’

Turkish officials have closed a German Embassy school in İzmir, with the head teacher telling German press agency DPA that the officials said the...

CHP’s İnce says he will not run against against Kılıçdaroğlu for chairmanship

Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce in response to intra-party debates has said he would not run against CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu...

Survey: As human rights violations in Turkey increase, reports in media decrease

Although there were significantly more human rights violations in Turkey in 2017 than in 2015, coverage of the violations declined in the Turkish media,...

16 foreign students in Mersin detained over Gülen links

Sixteen foreign students studying in Turkey -- 10 from Somalia, three from Djibouti, two from Guinea and one from Syria -- were detained when...

US senators praise meeting with Erdoğan, sparking backlash on Twitter

US Senators Lindsay Graham and Jeanne Shaheen met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Friday during which the detention of American...

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