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Detention warrants issued for 27 more military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 27 active duty and 6 dismissed military personnel as part of an...

Court hands down lengthy sentences to defendants in main KCK trial

A high criminal court in the eastern Turkish province of Van on Monday handed down lengthy jail sentences ranging between six and eight years...

Saturday Mothers file criminal complaint against Minister Soylu

The Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s,...

Turkey’s Court of Cassation rejects CHP deputy’s appeal for release

The 17th Chamber of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals on Monday rejected a petition from jailed Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu, who...

51 soldiers, 9 civilians detained over Gülen links in post-coup investigations

Turkish authorities on Monday detained 51 soldiers and nine others over alleged links to a US-based cleric who Ankara claims orchestrated a failed coup...

Pro-Erdoğan troll says ‘the best Gülenist is a dead Gülenist’

Amid an ongoing witch-hunt conducted by the government targeting people sympathetic to Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, one of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s well-known...

Journalists foundation report sheds light on suspicious deaths in Turkish prisons

The Gülen movement-affiliated Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF), based in New York, released a new report titled “Death in Custody: Right to Life in...

TSK says 2 Turkish soldiers detained by Greece have been released

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has said two Turkish soldiers who were detained by the Greek military on Saturday morning for crossing the Greek...

239 people detained in a week over Gülen links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 239 people were detained last week as part of investigations into the faith-based Gülen movement. A total...

Turkish city pulls out of bus deal with Tesla after Musk smokes pot in live video

Turkey’s northwestern municipality of Balıkesir revoked an offer to Tesla for a project entailing the purchase of 180 electric buses in response to a...

3 villages in Turkey put in quarantine due to anthrax diagnosis in cattle

Three villages in Turkey’s northwestern province of Kocaeli were quarantined after anthrax was diagnosed in cattle on a local farm, the Diken news website...

Turkish minister: 255,300 Syrian refugees have returned home

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Sunday that 255,300 Syrian refugees have returned home over the past two years, the state-run Anadolu news...

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