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39 more purged teachers referred to court in Antalya

Thirty-nine more teachers were referred to court on Thursday after eight days of detention in Antalya, victims of a massive witch-hunt following a failed...

MHP asks for expulsion of leadership contender

A Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy, Professor Ümit Özdağ, was referred to the disciplinary board on Thursday for his critical stance against party leader...

Platform 24: Total number of arrested journalists in Turkey rises to 130

According to a story by independent journalism organization Platform 24 (P24) the total number of journalists who are imprisoned in Turkey reached 130 on...

Ottoman Hearths 1453 chairman calls on all Erdoğan supporters to take up arms

The chairman of Ottoman Hearths 1453, Emin Canpolat, has called on all supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip...

Family minister says Turkish women know how to die like a man

Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Betül Sayan has said Turkish women know very well how to die like a man and that women's...

Aksaray University academics including former rector detained over Gülen links

Forty-six staff members of Aksaray University in central Turkey including the university's former rector were detained on Thursday in the latest wave of an...

Turkish jets pound PYD-YPG targets, killing around 200 militia fighters  

A Turkish air strike has killed as many as 200 fighters of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the YPG...

40 air force officers detained in post-coup purge in Konya

Forty officers serving at the 3rd Main Jet Airbase in Konya were detained on Thursday as part of post-coup operations targeting alleged followers of...

Government-appointed trustees in Diyarbakır’s Ergani Municipality resign

Two out of three trustees, appointed by Diyarbakır Governor's Office as acting mayor of Ergani district in September, resigned from their posts on Wednesday. Ramazan...

Rights watchdogs, press groups urge Turkey to end emergency abuses

Global human rights organizations as well as press freedom associations have urged the Turkish government to end its abuses against perceived critics committed under...

IHD: 40,573 rights violations, 1,481 dead in 9 months in Turkey

Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) stated on Wednesday that 40,573 rights violations occurred in the first nine months of 2016 in Turkey, the Cumhuriyet...

Turkish mob boss to gov’t: Why bother with diplomacy? We’ll kill Gülen, his followers

Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı implied in a letter to the Justice Ministry that his mafia network could kill Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...

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