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Turkey detained 62,402 over Gülen links in 2017

Turkish security forces detained a total of 62,402 people in 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported...

Report: Turkey killed 1,190 PKK members in 2017

A total of 1,190 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in 2017, according to information gathered from Turkish Interior...

Detention warrants issued for 171 Fatih University staff members, academics

Detention warrants have been issued for 171 academics and other staff members of Fatih University, which was seized and closed by the government last...

PM says controversial gov’t decree will not be revised

Amid growing reactions from opposition and human rights defenders, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Wednesday said they will not revise a new state of...

Turkey sends new troops to Qatar

A group of Turkish soldiers have been deployed to a military base in the Qatari capital of Doha, Qatar’s Defense Ministry said. According to the...

AKP executive says Erdoğan sent by God as a hope for Muslims

  Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) executive Belma Erdoğan said on Tuesday that Turkish President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a great...

[OPINION] Erdoğan gov’t encourages vigilante violence in Turkey

by Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish government has not only disregarded major criticism directed at the most controversial article of state of emergency decrees, which provides...

Judges who released Korkmaz in 2015 purged from positions

Two judges who in 2015 released Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former İstanbul police officer who testified at the New York trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla,...

60,000 suspects to wear controversial prison jumpsuits

A new state of emergency decree that stipulates all convicts and suspects under arrest for alleged crimes against the constitutional order in Turkey wear...

Conflicting statements come from ruling party on civilian immunity

Amid growing reactions from opposition and human rights defenders, conflicting statements came from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members on calls for the...

Court sets April 18 as next hearing date for Önderoğlu, Fincancı, Nesin

The Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a request to send a case to the Constitutional Court, scheduling April 18, 2018 as...

Report: 5,822 academics dismissed by Turkish gov’t so far

Following the dismissal of 105 academics by means of a recent state of emergency decree, the number of academics fired by decree-laws issued by...

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