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Murderer of Karlov received 30 salary awards in 30 months

Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, the police officer who assassinated Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey last week, was financially rewarded more than 30 times...

Tea-maker at Cumhuriyet daily headquarters jailed for ‘insulting’ Erdogan

Şenol Buran, a tea-maker working at the Cumhuriyet daily’s İstanbul headquarters, has been arrested by a Turkish court for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip...

Work of art with name ‘Constantinople’ removed due to public reaction in İstanbul

A work of art titled "Constantinople" that was put on display in front of a shopping center in İstanbul was removed five hours after...

5,166 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Germany during January-November

Germany received asylum applications from a total of 5,166 Turkish citizens during the January-November period of 2016, according to a story in Deutsche Welle...

Justice Ministry leaves coup commission’s questions unanswered, says it is not authorized

Turkey's Justice Ministry has refused to answer a number of questions directed to it by a commission established in Parliament to investigate a failed...

Turkey detains six more journalists amid heavy crackdown on media

As a government-led crackdown on critical media outlets in the country continues at full speed, Turkish police teams on Sunday detained six more journalists...

FM Çavuşoğlu says gov’t to open more religious schools

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Saturday that the government would open more imam-hatip schools (religious schools) amid allegations that the schools are...

[OPINION] Russian ambassador’s murderer linked to Erdoğan family

Abdullah Bozkurt More details have emerged on the secretive past of the killer of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, shedding further light on how he...

Russian envoy’s murderer attended sermons of controversial pro-Erdoğan cleric

While the Turkish government insists on claiming that Mert Altıntaş, the police officer who assassinated the Russian ambassador to Ankara, is linked to the...

317 soldiers detained after court issues 530 warrants over Gülen links

A total of 317 soldiers were detained on Saturday in police raids across 58 Turkish provinces after an İstanbul court issued detention warrants for...

Turkey’s lowest-ranking local administrators to collect intelligence on people

The Turkish Ministry of Interior Affairs has sent a memorandum to all governors asking them to collect information gathered by the lowest-ranking local administrators,...

10,000 social media users currently under investigation in Turkey

The Ministry of Interior Affairs has announced that 10,000 people are currently under investigation on suspicion of terrorist propaganda and insulting senior state officials...

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