At least 20 municipal officials were also arrested along with HDP mayors from Savur, Derik and Mazidagi districts of Mardin and Suruc district of Sanliurfa as part of ongoing terrorism investigations, provincial prosecutors said.
The network won an award for its coverage of the ongoing crisis in Indian-administered Kashmir.
In 1944, over 92,000 Ahiska Turks, also known as Meskhetian Turks, were expelled from Georgia’s Meskheti region by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, according to the World Ahiska Turks Association.
The Turkish president says that giving up the Russian missile defence system would be an interference in Turkey's sovereignty rights but is open to buying the US's Patriot missile defence system as well.
Police in Istanbul captured Mevlut Cuskun, who was on the Turkish Interior Ministry's wanted list.
Following a meeting with US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the US senator stood up to tell his colleagues they should not sugarcoat or rewrite history.
Turkish media identified the man as 39-year-old Mohammad Darwis B and said he was an American citizen of Jordanian background. The US agreed to take him in and to provide him with travel documents.
Addressing a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart, US President Trump said Europe was not owning up to its responsibilities regarding the Syrian refugee crisis.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the White House to hold a meeting with US President Donald Trump as well as select senators, a meeting set to focus on bilateral relations and foreign policy issues, including Syria.
The body of former MI6 officer Le Mesurier, 48, was found dead in the street in Beyoglu district of Istanbul in the early hours of Monday by passersby who were going to the mosque for the morning prayer.
A new Gallup International survey of Arabs and Kurds in Syria finds that intra-Kurdish opinion is divided and that people would rather live under Daesh than the Syrian regime.
Turkish Interior Minister Soylu urged other countries to cooperate in the repatriation of their citizens who joined terror groups and to not treat Turkey as "a hotel or a guest house for terrorists" from other countries.
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