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Dismissed academics want their passports back after state of emergency lifted

Turkish academics who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees during a two-year-long state of emergency have started a campaign on social media...

Medium-sized Konya surpasses big Turkish cities in library usage: report

The Central Anatolian city of Konya has the highest library usage by locals, with 2,459,197 people borrowing books in 2017 according to a Turkish...

Journalist sentenced to prison for report on death of Kurd after police raids

Hülya Emeç, a Turkish journalist and member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), was sentenced by a Turkish court on Monday to six...

Sinop chosen for nuclear plant because low population will minimize loss of life, says mayor

The mayor of Turkey’s Black Sea city of Sinop has claimed that the government chose Sinop as a location for a nuclear power plant...

Turkish justice minister says court’s Brunson decision was ‘just, fair and reasonable’

Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has said an İzmir court ruling to put American pastor Andrew Brunson under house arrest after almost two years...

Detention warrants issued for 37 educators in Ankara over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 37 educators as part of an investigation into the Private Akıllı Schools...

3 İYİ Party officials resign, saying party has lost ability to become Turkey’s hope

As the party heads towards an emergency convention after a brief crisis in leadership, three prominent deputies from the İYİ (Good) Party have decided...

Erdoğan plans to reshuffle AKP’s top management: report

President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to make significant changes to party management at the upcoming...

İstanbul is second least healthy city in the world: report

İstanbul was ranked the second least healthy city in the world among 89 cities surveyed for designated criteria in research conducted by home renting...

Daily removes op-ed claiming Turkey asked US to halt Halkbank probes in exchange for pastor Brunson

The pro-government Hürriyet daily on Saturday removed from its website a column claiming that two separate investigations targeting Turkey’s Halkbank are being conducted in...

Exiled novelist Erdoğan says Turkey has a fascist regime like 1930s Germany

Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is...

9 more majors sought by prosecutors over alleged Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday issued detention warrants for two active duty and seven previously dismissed majors as part of an...

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