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Gül confirms visit by army chief, Erdoğan advisor, says no threat was made

Former President Abdullah Gül has confirmed that Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor İbrahim Kalın paid...

Release Demirtaş during presidential election campaign, says HDP

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is preparing to ask Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the release of jailed HDP deputy Selahattin Demirtaş,...

Man gets 9 years for taking medicine to Gülen-linked hospitals in Tanzania

Sixty-year-old Abdurrahman Selçuk has been convicted of terror charges and handed down a nine-year jail sentence for distributing medicine to hospitals linked to the...

Public survey played role in determining CHP’s presidential candidate

The results of a public survey may have played a role in the main opposition Republican People’s Party‘s (CHP) nomination of Yalova deputy Muharrem...

Detention warrants issued on Friday for 19 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 19 former and active duty military members of varying ranks and nine...

Main opposition CHP announces İnce as presidential candidate

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Friday announced CHP Yalova deputy Muharrem İnce as its candidate for the June 24 snap presidential...

Detention warrants issued on Friday for 45 over alleged Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 45 people allegedly linked with the "police network" of the faith-based Gülen...

6 MHP deputies refuse to sign on to Erdoğan’s candidacy

Six deputies from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have refused to lend their signatures in support of the presidential candidacy of incumbent President Recep...

Jailed journalist Baransu says, he only wrote on whatever Turkey was talking about

Former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was jailed in March 2015, has said what he did was only to engage in his profession...

The Kafkaesque case of a visual journalist: Don’t forget Fevzi!

On the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, Can Bahadır Yüce, a poet, academic and journalist, has written an article for English...

Detention warrants issued on Thursday for 70 military personnel over Gülen links

The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 70 former and active duty military members of varying ranks as part...

4 opposition parties to form alliance for June 24 parliamentary elections

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), İYİ Party, Felicity Party (SP) and the Democrat Party (DP) have decided to form an alliance for...

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