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Turkey jails 10 HDP deputies, 37 Kurdish mayors to date

The Turkish government has arrested a total of 10 deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the past couple of weeks and...

Turkey’s coup commission drafts report despite opposition reservations

A parliamentary coup commission established to investigate a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey has begun to draft its report despite the objection of...

Erdoğan accuses EU of ‘supporting terrorists’ at NATO meeting

Speaking at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly meeting held in İstanbul on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused European Union countries of “supporting terrorism.” Erdoğan said...

European deputies not allowed to visit Demirtaş in prison

A delegation of European politicians was not allowed to pay a visit to the imprisoned co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş,...

Ministry warns jails of revolts amid fears of staged prison breaks

  Amid increasing fears of staged prison breaks to kill political prisoners in Turkey, the Ministry of Justice sent a memo to prisons across country...

Gov’t calls on CHP, MHP to present own proposals on sexual abuse of minors

Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has called on the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement...

HDP deputy Pir elected to NATO post, yet faces travel ban

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy ZiyaPir has been elected deputy chairman of a sub-committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, but the deputy faces...

YÖK looks for university rectors through job ads after cancellation of elections

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) is looking for university rectors through job advertisements taken out in national newspapers after the Turkish government last month...

Most child brides in Turkey from Kilis province, TurkStat data reveal

The Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), which has drawn up a map of marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in Turkey, has revealed...

Turkey detains Mardin Co-mayor Türk, Artuklu district mayor Irmak

Turkish police on Monday detained Ahmet Türk, a former deputy and also co-mayor of the Mardin Municipality, and Emin Irmak, Artuklu district mayor, as...

[UPDATE] Detained ÇHD president who raised torture claims in prisons released

Selçuk Kozağaçlı, president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), was detained in Ankara on Tuesday along with three other lawyers on Monday soon...

Arrested Turkish UN judge appeals to Constitutional Court for diplomatic immunity

Turkish judge Aydın Sefa Akay, who serves on the UN war crimes panel and was arrested in September as part of a government witch-hunt...

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