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Key coup suspect says he was at Akıncı Airbase for happy hour during 2016 coup attempt

Hakan Çiçek, a defendant in a trial of suspects accused of taking part in a failed coup in 2016, said on Thursday that he...

RSF urges Turkey to free French journalist arrested on terrorism charge

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Turkish government on Thursday to immediately release French freelance reporter Loup Bureau, who was jailed by a...

Former top religious body president Görmez to be rector of new university

Mehmet Görmez, who recently retired as director of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), will serve as rector of the newly established Turkey International Islam,...

Judge breaks off coup hearing after complainants throw water bottles at defendants

The presiding judge at a hearing in Ankara on Thursday, part of a trial of key suspects in a failed coup in 2016, broke...

Another police chief jailed over Gülen links dies in Turkish prison

Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...

US Embassy says reports on Washington sending tanks, ammunition to Syria erroneous

The US Embassy in Ankara said on Thursday that reports in the Turkish media claiming Washington has sent tanks and hundreds of truckloads of...

34 women, 17 children killed by men in Turkey in July

A total of 34 women and 17 children were killed by men in Turkey during the month of July, Gazete Şûjin reported on Thursday. According...

RTÜK fines TV channel for showing Gülen linked book on shelf

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has fined the Kanal D television channel for airing footage that shows a book linked to the...

ECtHR rejects release request of jailed Turkish hunger strikers

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday rejected Turkish hunger striker educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça’s request to order the Turkish...

17 Turkish nationals ask for asylum in Greece, say their lives in danger

Seventeen Turkish nationals who entered Greece illegally through the island of Rhodes have asked for asylum, saying their lives are in danger in Turkey,...

HRW to Turkey: Investigate abductions, disappearances in Ankara

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and possibly enforced disappearances...

625 more members resign from MHP to form new party with expelled Akşener

A total of 625 members of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) Kocaeli and Bursa provincial branches have resigned to join former MHP deputy Meral...

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