A Turkish court sentenced dozens of people to life imprisonment on Wednesday over their involvement in the 2016 failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
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Turkish authorities on Monday detained 10 former admirals after a group of more than 100 retired top navy officers issued a statement that government officials tied to Turkey’s history of military coups.
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Greece is reporting a series of brushes with Turkey’s coast guard in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast, at a time of generally testy relations between the two neighbors and NATO allies.
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Citing procedural deficiencies, Turkey’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to disband the country’s opposition pro-Kurdish party for alleged links to Kurdish militants, the state-run news agency reported.
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Turkish police on Friday detained dozens of students protesting against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a party loyalist as the head of a top Istanbul university.
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Hundreds of Uyghurs staged protests in Ankara and Istanbul on Thursday, denouncing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stance against human rights abuses in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.
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The Fourth Circuit made mincemeat of Bijan Kian’s acquittal after-the-fact, saying the trial court was also wrong to conditionally grant a new trial.
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In the latest crackdown on Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party, Turkey on Wednesday stripped a prominent legislator of his parliamentary seat following his conviction over a 2016 social media post.
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A Turkish court on Tuesday slapped life terms on five suspects over the 2016 murder of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, state news agency Anadolu reported.
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A Turkish court trying 26 Saudi suspects in absentia for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Thursday refused to admit a US report blaming the kingdom’s crown prince for the killing.
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An Istanbul court on Monday delivered a rare victory to freedom of expression advocates in Turkey by acquitting two veteran actors of “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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More than a dozen French professors at a top Turkish university face the threat of expulsion after being denied work permits while a diplomatic feud rages between Paris and Ankara.
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A federal court in New York conditionally dismissed a suit brought by hundreds of judgment creditors of Iran against Turkey’s Halkbank relating to claims it skirted U.S. sanctions against Iran and supported state-sponsored terrorism. Most of the plaintiffs do not live in the U.S. and Turkey would be a more appropriate forum for the case.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern angrily accused Australia Tuesday of shirking its responsibility for a dual national arrested in Turkey with alleged links to the Islamic State militant group.
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Turkey on Thursday rejected a U.S. call to release jailed civil society leader Osman Kavala, accusing Washington of interference.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled against Turkey in the case of a girl who was forced into prostitution from the age of 12, saying she was not given sufficient legal protection and support.
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An unusual friendship between a Turkish man and a swan he rescued has endured for decades.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced student protesters as “terrorists” and vowed to crackdown on demonstrations opposing the appointment of a government loyalist to head Istanbul’s most prestigious university.
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The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Turkey violated a British artist’s freedom of speech by convicting him of “insulting” Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was prime minister.
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A devoted dog spent five days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment.
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