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Journalist detained in Mersin for carrying a magazine

A journalist working for the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, Özkan Erdal, has been detained in the Tarsus district of Mersin province, the Evrensel daily reported...

US asks Turkey to ensure judicial independence, release journalists

US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert asked Turkey to ensure judicial independence and release imprisoned journalists, during a press briefing on Thursday. Nauert, who was...

Journalist sent to jail for attending pro-Kurdish forum gathering

Yusuf Karataş, a columnist for the Evrensel newspaper, was put in pretrial detention as part of an investigation into the Democratic People’s Congress (DTK),...

Erdoğan-led Turkey has new plans for the Balkans

by Abdullah Bozkurt Increasingly isolated Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears set to stir up some troubles for Europe, starting in the Balkans, as...

YÖK responds to Erdoğan’s ‘request’ to eliminate assistant professorship status

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) Chairman Yekta Saraç has said they started working on removal of the position of assistant professor after Turkish President...

Opposition party CHP initiates ‘Democracy Watch’ in Turkish Parliament

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Özgür Özel said his party decided to spend the night in Parliament yesterday in...

26 ISIL suspects detained in simultaneous police raids in İstanbul

A total of 26 suspects who allegedly have links to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were detained in simultaneous...

Turkish PM to German firms: We don’t see you as German  

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has reassured the representatives of 19 German companies in Turkey, saying that he considers them not to be German...

CHP deputy claims luxury Mercedes bought for Parliament Speaker Kahraman

Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Barış Yarkadaş has claimed that an official car valued at TL 5 million (more than 1.5 million euros) has...

CHP sends message of support for HDP’s ‘Justice Watch’

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has sent a message of support to a “Justice Watch” launched by the Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

Surveys show majority of Germans avoid going on holiday to Turkey

The results of two public surveys conducted in Germany have shown that the majority of the Germans prefer not to go to Turkey on...

Turkey changes distribution of deputies per electoral district

As the number of deputies to be elected to the Turkish Parliament has risen to 600 from 550 with the approval of a constitutional...

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