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Kurds take to the streets of European cities to protest Erdoğan, HDP arrests

The Kurdish diaspora living in Europe took to the streets of various European capitals on Saturday to protest the detention and subsequent arrest of...

Number of Turkish asylum seekers in Germany doubles

The number of applications for political asylum filed by Turkish citizens in Germany has increased in recent months, the Bild daily reported on Saturday. A...

1,000 staff members added to personnel of Erdoğan’s palace

In addition to security personnel, 1,804 people work at the controversial presidential palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Presidential Secretary-General Fahri Kasırga has said,...

Officer purged from military after coup attempt found dead in prison

İrfan Kızılarslan, a former colonel who was dismissed from the military and arrested following a failed coup on July 15 due to alleged involvement...

After ISIL claims Diyarbakır attack, Turkey insists it was PKK

Following the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claiming responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack on a police station on Friday,...

Cumhuriyet columnist claims Balbay, Coşkun behind crackdown on paper

As nine Cumhuriyet columnists and executives were being arrested on Saturday on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda, a senior columnist at the daily argued...

Trustee appointed to Kurdish municipality of Şırnak

The Ministry of Interior Affairs appointed a trustee to the Şırnak Municipality on Saturday after the removal of the elected mayor on allegations of...

Main opposition leader calls party for emergency meeting after Cumhuriyet arrests

The chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, called his party’s Central Executive Board (MYK) for an emergency meeting on...

[UPDATE] Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Sabuncu and 8 others from daily arrested

Nine journalists and executives from the Cumhuriyet daily, including its Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, were arrested by the İstanbul 9th Penal Court of Peace on...

The Economist: Goodbye, ‘Republic’

The editorial board of the London-based Economist magazine said in a piece on Saturday that the recent crackdown on Turkey's secularist Cumhuriyet daily is...

Released Cumhuriyet columnist: I have never seen such immoral accusations

Aydın Engin, a columnist for the Cumhuriyet daily who was released on Friday evening after spending four days in police custody, said he has...

EU’s Greens: Recent arrests a coup by Erdoğan and government against lawful opposition

Rebecca Harms, the president of Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) group in the European Parliament, reacted against the recent arrests of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)...

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