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German FM to visit Turkey for more engagement with civil society

Announcing a visit to Turkey next Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier underlined the importance of engagement with civil society in Turkey amid growing...

European United Left/Nordic Green Left calls for freezing talks with Turkey

The European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group from the European Parliament on Thursday called for the freezing of membership accession talks with Turkey...

CoE’s Jagland meets Turkey’s PM, FM amid hundreds of purge complaints to ECtHR

Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland met with Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and the president of the Constitutional Court on...

Imprisoned Cumhuriyet columnists say all they did was journalism

In messages sent through Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies Şafak Pavey and Sezgin Tanrıkulu, who paid a visit to imprisoned Cumhuriyet columnists and executives...

Turkey commemorates Atatürk on 78th anniversary of death

A majority of Turks attended events on Thursday to commemorate the memory of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In the above photo,...

Indictment demands life sentence for Özgür Gündem advisors Alpay, Erdoğan over ‘terrorist propaganda’

  An indictment concerning the now-closed pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem has demanded a sentence of aggravated life in prison for author Aslı Erdoğan and linguist...

Kılıçdaroğlu pays solidarity visit to Cumhuriyet, calls on judges to resist pressure

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Thursday paid a visit to the Cumhuriyet daily, nine of whose journalists...

Justice minister says 36,000 arrested over Gülen links so far

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has announced that a total of 36,000 people have been arrested so far in ongoing operations targeting alleged members...

Council of Europe’s Jagland in Ankara amid Turkish crackdown on opposition

At a time when the Turkish government has attracted widespread criticism for its recent crackdown on an opposition party and an opposition newspaper, Council...

[UPDATE] Trustee among 3 injured in explosion near Derik district governor’s house

Three people including a district governor who was appointed as a trustee to the Derik Municipality in September were injured in an explosion near...

28 staff members at İnönü University detained over alleged Gülen links

Twenty-eight staff members from İnönü University in Malatya have been detained as part of ongoing operations against alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement. The...

Another ‘coup suspect’ found dead in Turkish prison, bringing total to 21

Burak Açıkalın, an engineer who was dismissed from Turkey’s Directorate of Intelligence and arrested following a failed coup on July 15 due to alleged...

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