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Turkish prosecutor charges 120 people in Gezi Park investigation: report

Turkish prosecutors filed criminal charges for at least 120 people and have launched investigations into more than 600 suspects for their participation in the...

Turkish man jailed for 5 years acquitted after court fails to locate secret witnesses

Abdurrahim Dalmış, who was arrested in 2010 and held in pretrial detention for five on terrorism charges, was acquitted by a court that announced...

Remains of 2 soldiers who went missing during 2016 coup in Turkey found: report

The bodies of two sergeants who went missing on the night of a failed coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016 were recently found...

3 migrants found frozen to death near Turkish-Greek border

The bodies of three migrants believed to have frozen to death were found in three separate Turkish border villages, AFP reported on Tuesday. The first...

Regional appeals court upholds Kurdish politician Demirtaş’s sentence

A regional appeals court in Turkey has upheld Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş’s four year, eight month prison sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda, the Gazete...

Turkish prosecutors issue 228 warrants, police detain 166 in one day over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 228 people countrywide, 166 of whom were detained, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers...

1,797 workers in Turkey died in occupational accidents in first 11 months of 2018

A report on work safety released on Tuesday by the Laborers Health and Occupational Safety Assembly (İSİG) indicated that occupational accidents claimed the lives...

Turkish court rejects lawsuit aimed at cancellation of Green Road project

A court in the Turkish Black Sea province of Rize has rejected a lawsuit from locals aimed at cancellation of a controversial project known...

New courts established in Turkey with HSK decree

The first chamber of Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has decreed the establishment of new courts in several provinces in a recentlyissued...

HDP co-chairperson and 10 deputies go on hunger strike to support jailed deputy

Co-chairperson of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Pervin Buldan announced on Monday that she and 10 other deputies from her party would go on...

Erdoğan accuses Soros, Kavala of organizing 2013 Gezi protests in Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused businessmen George Soros and Turkish activist Osman Kavala of being the foreign and domestic organizers of anti-government protests...

Probe finds Turkish NCOs disobeyed superiors in terror operation due to lack of planning

An investigation into a military contingent has revealed that in 2017, 48 noncommissioned officers (NCOs) objected to orders from their superiors, who wanted to...

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