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Kılıçdaroğlu discusses strengthening democracy in Turkey with opposition leaders

Main opposition Republican People's Party Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will meet with pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Serpil Kemalbay after meeting with former Nationalist...

Court arrests Aydınlık Editor-in-Chief Yücel

İlker Yücel, editor-in-chief of the Aydınlık daily, which is affiliated with the ultranationalist Homeland Party (VP) of Doğu Perinçek, was arrested by a court...

PM’s chief advisor detained over Gülen links

Birol Erdem, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s chief advisor, was detained on Saturday in Ankara as part of a witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen...

Father of NBA’s Kanter detained over Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kanter, father of NBA Oklahoma City Thunder player Enes Kanter, who the government seeks to arrest...

Justice minister: Coup plotters are mocking the judges of the court

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ commented Friday on the testimony of officers standing trial for a failed coup attempt on July 15, saying they were...

Army chief’s former advisor: Military ignored tip-offs about possible coup attempts twice

Col. Orhan Yıkılkan, a former chief advisor to Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, has said the General Staff received two tip-offs about...

CHP leader asks party to prepare alternate report on Turkey’s failed coup

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has asked his party to draft an alternate report investigating a failed coup that took...

Turkish police detain HDP spokesperson Baydemir

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir was detained in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Friday. A detention warrant was...

Erdoğan files criminal complaint against AEI’s Rubin on insult charges

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a...

Dozens of academics detained in anti-Gülen operation at Namık Kemal University

Turkish police teams on Friday detained dozens of academics and staff members including deputy rectors and professors at Namık Kemal University in Tekirdağ due to...

Security footage confirms major’s testimony that he notified MİT of coup attempt

Newly revealed security camera footage confirms the timing in the testimony of a major, O.K. who claims he notified Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT)...

Closed DİHA journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır

Zekeriya Güzüpek, former head of the now-closed pro-Kurdish Dicle news agency (DİHA), and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA’s Kurdish service, were...

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