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Increased tolls for Turkey’s bridges, highways to be effective as of new year

Hours after the government announced a decrease in the toll for the Osman Gazi Bridge on the Marmara Sea due to complaints from the...

8 ISIL suspects detained in Ankara on New Year’s Eve

At the end of a year in which Turkey has been struck by multiple terrorist attacks, eight Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

55,000 police officers under investigation after Russian envoy’s assassination

Following the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov on Dec. 19 by a young Turkish police officer who chanted radical slogans, the...

İstanbul continues to suffer from major power cuts

Amid increasing complaints from residents, almost all of İstanbul and nearby cities continue to suffer from frequent power cuts in the last day of...

14 staff members dismissed from Justice Ministry now arrested over Gülen links

As part of a massive purge currently ongoing in Turkey, on the last day of the year 14 dismissed personnel from the Ministry of...

President of Uşak University arrested on coup charges

The president of Uşak University and three other university employees were arrested on Saturday in the western province of Uşak as part of an investigation targeting the...

Turkey arrests 26 more academics, university staff over coup links

A total of 26 academics and university personnel from Eskişehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ) have been arrested on coup charges. Last week police detained 35 university...

[VIDEO] Arrested journalist Şık said in old interview was warned of impending arrest

Journalist Ahmet Şık, who was arrested by a court on Friday on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the...

[VIDEO] Former RP deputy: Fighting terrorism not possible within law, MİT must carry out assassinations

Şevki Yılmaz, former Welfare Party (RP) deputy and presently a columnist for the pro-government Yeni Akit daily, said on Friday that the Turkish intelligence...

Access to 4 major TV show provider websites blocked in Turkey

A total of four websites — Dizibox.net, Dizipub.com, Dizimag.com and Dizilab.com — which provide top-rated American TV series, has violated the Copyright Act, according...

Pro-Erdoğan daily claims Gülen movement converted 500,000 to Christianity in Kazakhstan

A Turkish daily claimed on Friday that the Gülen movement had converted 500,000 people to Christianity in Kazakhstan through its schools around the country. The...

100 more military officers arrested over use of ByLock

A total of a hundred high-ranking military officers have been arrested by a court on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone application that...

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