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Minister says Turkey to teach US ambassador it is independent state

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has reacted harshly to US Ambassador John Bass for an embassy statement on the appointment of trustees to some municipalities...

Turkey officially asks US to arrest Gülen on coup charges

  Turkey’s Justice Ministry has officially asked the US to temporarily arrest Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, claiming that he gave the order for a...

Kalın: Turkey has no military plans on Raqqa, but Al Bab

Ankara has been working on a detailed operation plan against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syrian city of Al...

CCBE head urges President Erdoğan to release lawyers in Turkish prisons

  Michel Benichou, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), has stated that he is deeply concerned about the safety...

Turkish deputy PM admits indiscriminate gov’t purge of dissidents

Among the more than 50,000 people dismissed from government jobs by Justice and Development Party (AKP) government decrees during the state of emergency declared...

Turkish minister says 3,000 more employees to be purged

Turkey's Health Ministry is working on a group of 3,000 people among its employees to be purged from the institution, Health Minister Recep Akdağ...

Ankara slams US ambassador for statement on municipality takeover

The Turkish government has reacted harshly to a statement released by the US Embassy in Ankara on the appointment of trustees to municipalities in...

Erdoğan supports municipality step: Overdue

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday expressed support for the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities, 24 of them run by pro-Kurdish parties, saying...

PKK chief: If the state is ready, we could resolve the conflict in 6 months

Jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has sent a message of reconciliation to Turkish authorities, calling for an immediate halt...

EP rapporteur: State of emergency turns into pressure tool against Kurds

  Following Turkish government’s replacement of elected mayors mostly in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday, Kati Piri, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey...

Car bomb in Van injures at least 48 people

One of the largest provinces in eastern Turkey, Van was struck by a terrorist attack Monday morning as the nation observes the religious festival...

PM: Gov’t to continue appointing administrators to Kurdish-run municipalities

Rebuffing public criticism sparked by a government decision to remove elected Kurdish mayors suspected of having links to militants, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...

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