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Former Erdoğan insider exposes $1 bln corruption scheme in bombshell revelations

Bünyamin Tekin A former confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed the details of a $1 billion corruption scheme involving a 2007 tender, implicating...

Concerns abound as Erdoğan says ‘the people’ won’t let his rival assume presidency

Critics and opposition figures expressed concern over possible threats to a peaceful transition of power in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suggested that...

Turkey marks May Day amid police interventions, detention of protestors, journalists

Thousands of people across Turkey came out on Monday to celebrate Labor and Solidarity Day, or May Day, but the festivities were overshadowed by...

Turkey arrests 4 journalists detained in mass operation targeting Kurds

Four journalists who were detained along with more than 100 activists, lawyers and politicians in a mass operation targeting Kurds across Turkey earlier this...

Kılıçdaroğlu refers to his Alevi roots for the first time in historic speech

In a landmark move on Wednesday Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, presidential candidate and leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, publicly talked about his Alevi identity in...

Halkbank not immune from US prosecution for Iran sanctions violations under FSIA: Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the claim of sovereign immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) by a Turkish bank accused...

Kılıçdaroğlu accuses Erdoğan of treating Kurds like terrorists in order to win votes

Turkey’s main opposition leader and presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of treating Kurds like terrorists in order to win...

Amnesty International warns Turkey of human rights violations in HDP closure case

Amnesty International expressed serious concern over a closure case against Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and its potential impact on the human rights...

Leaked US papers show Russian mercenary sought to purchase arms from Turkey: report

An infamous Russian private military contractor tried to purchase arms from Turkey, a member of NATO, to use them in Russia’s war on Ukraine,...

Man who designed stickers blaming Erdoğan for high prices briefly detained for ‘insult’

A man who designed stickers that hold Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right ally Devlet Bahçeli responsible for high prices in stores was...

Pro-Kurdish party declines to present oral defense to top court in act of protest

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the subject of a closure case, has decided not to present an oral defense at the Constitutional Court...

Turkey’s elections are more vulnerable than Zimbabwe, Pakistan polls: Freedom House

According to an index newly created by Freedom House, Turkey's May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections are among the most vulnerable in the world,...

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