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Turkey will cover Hagia Sophia mosaics during prayers: ruling party spokesman
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Turkey will cover Hagia Sophia mosaics during prayers: ruling party spokesman

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Mosaics in Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia will be covered by curtains or lasers during times of Muslim…
Turkish lawyers protest against government plan to reform bar associations
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Turkish lawyers protest against government plan to reform bar associations

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Thousands of Turkish lawyers protested outside Istanbul’s main courthouse on Tuesday against a government plan to reform…
Turkey grants increased powers to neighborhood watchmen
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Turkey grants increased powers to neighborhood watchmen

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved a contentious government-proposed bill that will grant neighborhood watchmen powers that…
Special Report: How Turkey’s courts turned on Erdogan’s foes
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Special Report: How Turkey’s courts turned on Erdogan’s foes

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — It took 16 judges to convict Kurdish politicians Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel of belonging to a…
Former Turkish PM Davutoglu forms new party in challenge to Erdogan
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Former Turkish PM Davutoglu forms new party in challenge to Erdogan

ANKARA (Reuters) – Former Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, once a close ally to President Tayyip Erdogan, applied on Thursday…
Mayor says Turkish state banks shut out Istanbul after poll win
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Mayor says Turkish state banks shut out Istanbul after poll win

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Istanbul’s new mayor has said Turkey’s state banks stopped making routine loans to the city after a…
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party mulls pulling MPs from parliament
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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party mulls pulling MPs from parliament

ANKARA (Reuters) — A pro-Kurdish opposition party is considering withdrawing lawmakers from Turkey’s parliament due to mounting pressure it is…
Istanbul’s new mayor says ‘no individual or power’ can threaten democracy
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Istanbul’s new mayor says ‘no individual or power’ can threaten democracy

(CNN)–The winner of Istanbul’s mayoral election re-run has issued a thinly veiled warning to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to…
Turkey holds thousands in solitary in Erdogan’s prisons
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Turkey holds thousands in solitary in Erdogan’s prisons

“My living conditions are getting worse by the day, and I feel increasingly poor,” Muzaffer Ozcengiz wrote from his prison…
Opposition to discuss roadmap after Istanbul vote re-run order
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Opposition to discuss roadmap after Istanbul vote re-run order

The Turkish opposition candidate was stripped of his mayoral post after a controversial order to re-run the Istanbul vote was…
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