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Another pro-Kurdish HDP deputy, Çağlar Demirel, arrested

Amid a major crackdown against Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), another deputy of the third largest party in Parliament, Çağlar Demirel, was arrested...

35 including 21 academics detained over Gülen links

Thirty-five people including 21 academics were detained on Tuesday as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, which the government claims to have...

Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy released and detained again on same day

Besime Konca, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who was detained on Monday night and released on probation on Tuesday morning,...

10 including HDP Halfeti district co-mayor arrested on terror charges

Ten people including Mustafa Bayram, the co-mayor of the Halfeti district in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, were arrested on Tuesday on charges of...

Interior Ministry: 568 detained in 28 provinces in relation to İstanbul bombings

Turkey's Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Wednesday that a total of 568 people were detained across 28 provinces Dec.12-13 as part of...

Teacher making students pose with nooses sparks outrage

A primary school teacher in İstanbul’s Başakşehir district attracted widespread criticism when he shared photos of his students on social media in which they...

Court rules 8 HDP deputies be escorted by police to testify in court

A Diyarbakır court hearing a trial involving the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) ruled on Tuesday that eight deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

Parliament speaker calls emergency meeting for removal of jailed deputies’ photos

Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman convened an emergency meeting of Parliament's Board of Spokespersons to ask for the removal of photos of 10 jailed deputies...

CPJ annual census: 259 journalists are jailed, at least 81 from Turkey

According to an annual global census published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), as of Dec. 1 a record number of journalists, 259,...

Turkey detains 372, mostly from pro-Kurdish HDP, over terror links

Following car bomb and suicide bomber attacks in İstanbul on Saturday night that claimed 44 lives, the Ministry of Interior Affairs announced on Tuesday...

Turkish deputy PM says final operation to take over Syria’s al-Bab under way

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on Monday that preparations for a final operation by Turkish-backed rebels to take over the Islamic State...

[VIDEO] Helsinki Commission focuses on post-coup human rights violations in Turkey

The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), which is also known as the US Helsinki Commission, on Nov. 9 held a briefing...

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