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Election authority prevents candidacy of CHP official convicted of insulting Erdoğan

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has found inappropriate the parliamentary candidacy of a Republican People’s Party (CHP) official from Edirne on the grounds that...

Cartoonist given one-year jail sentence due to drawing featuring Moses

Cartoonist Seyfi Şahin, who used to work for the closed-down popular humor magazine Gırgır, has been handed down a jail sentence of one year,...

AKP promises in its election manifesto to keep state of emergency in effect

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which released its election manifesto for the June 24 general election on Thursday, has promised to...

CHP’s İnce announces visit to Demirtaş’s family during dinner with EU ambassadors

Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce had dinner with European Union ambassadors in Ankara on Wednesday evening, telling them he would visit...

Controversial professor warns of civil war in event AKP does not win elections

Ahmet Maranki, who introduces himself as a professor of alternative medicine, has implied that a civil war could break out in Turkey if the...

Detention warrants issued for 16 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 16 active duty and former military personnel and three others allegedly linked...

Turkey’s central bank increases interest rates as Turkish lira is in free fall

Following the Turkish lira’s record value loss against the US dollar, policy committee members of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) held...

HDP: Turkey’s democratization depends on permanent peace

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) held a press conference on Wednesday to share their vision on solutions regarding the Kurdish question, stressing that Turkey’s...

CHP presidential candidate donates money to rivals’ campaign accounts

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce has made a TL 500 donation to the campaign accounts of each of...

Bahçeli visits jailed crime gang leader Çakıcı in hospital

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli on Wednesday visited Alaattin Çakıcı, a crime gang leader who has been convicted of a number of...

Government thinks Turkish lira’s value loss is a plot targeting elections

Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet spokesperson Bekir Bozdağ made statement on Wednesday concerning the Turkish lira’s record loss in value, claiming the latest deterioration...

Woman claims money she donated to İnce’s presidential campaign went to Erdoğan

A woman who deposited money in a state-owned bank as a contribution to the presidential campaign of Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Muharrem İnce...

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