An Istanbul court on June 17 ordered the arrest of Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı, the son-in-law of Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbaş, and former Istanbul police chief Hüseyin Çapkın on June 17
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In a phone call on June 16 with Qatari and French leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged dialogue to help resolve the Gulf crisis over Qatar, according to a presidential source
Authorities on June 16 freed the top advisor to Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım detained on suspicion of links to the movement of US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 17 said main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) justice march would not bring any benefit to themselves or the country, warning the party of potential legal proceedings
Turkey has sent a total of 5,000 tons of foodstuff to Qatar amid its diplomatic crisis with Gulf countries, Economy minister Nihat Zeybekci said on June 17.
Two reporters working for state-broadcaster TRT World were briefly detained in Saudi Arabia during Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s visit to the country.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry has stated that a security message issued by the U.S. Consulate Istanbul late on June 16 was based on ordinary measures taken by Turkish security officials
Britain, a guarantor of Cyprus, has upped the pace of its diplomatic traffic with the parties ahead of a five-way conference to be held in Geneva to reach a final agreement for the reunification of Cyprus.
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on June 16 that if main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is going to stage a march, he should have staged it against coups
Statements made by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu during his Istanbul march protesting against injustice in Turkey and the detention of a CHP lawmaker amount to a criminal offence, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed
Three soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Hakkari and the eastern province of Erzurum on June 17
Turkey aims to strengthen its defense sector using locally designed technology by 2020, a senior official said on June 16
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DOHA - Agence France-Presse
Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera said the Twitter account for its main Arabic-language channel was temporarily "suspended" on June 17, in the latest incident at the station.
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Tensions between a Syrian worker and factory department head on the morning of June 15 in the Hendek district of the Marmara province of Sakarya escalated to involve hundreds of locals, Doğan News Agency has reported.
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ANKARA
Turkish security forces seized a major arms stash belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the country’s eastern and southeastern provinces over the past week from June 8 to 15, the Turkish military stated on June 16
KAHRAMANMARAŞ
The head of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) criticized the Gulf countries’ decision to add Qatar-based Egyptian Islamic theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi to the designated terrorist list on June 15.
BERLIN - Reuters
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, died on June 16, the mass-selling newspaper Bild reported. He was 87.
Dinçer Gökçe – ISTANBUL
Thai football club Buriram United has filed a criminal complaint against a Turkish manager who had promised to organize a concert by U.S. pop icon Taylor Swift for the inauguration ceremony of the team’s new stadium last year.
ANKARA – Anadolu Agency
The number of foreign-partnered or foreign-funded new companies established in May was 583, the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) said in a report released on June 16.
The Interior Ministry suspended the mayors of the southern province of Adana’s Ceyhan district, the Central Anatolian province of Kasyeri’s Sarıoğlan district and Ankara’s Ayaş district on June 16 as part of ongoing judicial and administrative investigations, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported
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Barbaros Muratoğlu, Doğan Holding’s Ankara Administrative representative, was released from Istanbul’s Silivri prison late on June 15, 196 days after he was arrested on terror charges as a part of an investigation into FETÖ
Istanbul police have launched an operation to detain 78 former employees of the now-closed Bank Asya, including the lender’s top executives, as part of a probe launched by Istanbul prosecutors into the network of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
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The first overt criticism against the “justice march” of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu from Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government came from Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on June 16.
With Britain’s decision to leave the European Union – Brexit – on one side, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s defiance of transatlantic ties on the other side, have Europeans finally awakened to the urgency that they need to take matters into their own hands, face the root of their problems, devise strategic solutions and eventually give new shape to their union?
On April 16, 51.4 percent of the Turkish electorate voted in favor of a package of constitutional amendments that introduced an executive presidential system, in a drastic change to the country’s nearly century-old government system.
Since 1985, 32 years ago, I have been friends with the arrested Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul deputy and journalist Enis Berberoğlu and his wife, Oya Berberoğlu. Enis joined daily Cumhuriyet’s Ankara bureau that year, and I remember attending their wedding at Ankara’s Gençlik Park on June 7, 1985, and taking a wonderful photo with all our friends
Although fossil fuels, especially coal, dominated the world after the Industrial Revolution, times have changed.
The sudden embargo on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates perplexed us all this month. It was a half-baked regional response to the half-baked American ideas presented during President Donald Trump’s recent visit
The march that was started by social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in a call for “Justice” on June 15 may mark a turning point in Turkey’s political history.
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Last year, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders ran against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president and lost. Then Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump.
Erospolis wonders why anything in pink is fine for women but not for men.
The global political turmoil has left its mark on many of the works on display at this year’s Art Basel, the world’s biggest contemporary art fair
A bear cub which was found by locals in the eastern province of Bitlis’ Tatvan district and taken under protection at Van Yüzüncu Yıl University’s (YYU) Animal Protection and Rehabilitation Center has been sent to the Karacabey Ovakorusu Bear Shelter and Rehabilitation Center in the northwestern province of Bursa.
Excavation, restoration and conservation work has started in the historic Seljuk graveyard in the eastern province of Bitlis’ Ahlat, which is currently on UNESCO’s World Heritage tentative list.
Free workshops will be organized for children in the Çatalhöyük Neolithic settlement between June 19 and July 26.
The Hırka-ı Şerif, Prophet Muhammed’s sacred cloak made of linen, cotton and silk, is put on special display annually during Ramadan
The United Kingdom’s first retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid, an important figure in the Turkish avant-garde D-Group in the early 1940s, opened at Tate Modern
FOLDED CORNER - ‘Vano and Niko and Other Stories’ by Erlom Akhvlediani, translated by Mikheil Kakabadze (Dalkey Archive Press, $15.95, 124 pages)
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Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers’ sculptures created as part of his land art project “Rhythms of Life” seek interest, as their location is difficult to reach for tourists.
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