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PAKURD Chairman Baran refutes Erdoğan: I was tortured for 13 days

İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), on Monday refuted Human Rights Day remarks made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that...

Erdoğan says he stands with the oppressed of the world

As he continues a massive purge and witch-hunt against his opponents, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a message for Human Rights Day...

Kılıçdaroğlu: Zarrab bribe-takers now accusing CHP of corruption

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has strongly reacted to the removal by the government of the CHP mayor of İstanbul’s...

Erdoğan says Western media smearing him as they did Atatürk

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday said the Western media have been negatively portraying him as they did in the past with Atatürk,...

Government removes opposition mayor over corruption investigation

  The Ministry of Interior Affairs announced on Friday that the mayor of İstanbul’s Ataşehir district from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has...

3 former Zaman staff members released, columnists kept in prison

An İstanbul court on Friday ruled for the release of three advertising and sales department staff members of the Zaman media group while keeping...

Turkish police officer who saved Erdoğan on night of coup arrested over Gülen links

A police officer who was one of three crewmembers of a helicopter that carried Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family from a...

[UPDATE] 153 including 62 military members, 17 Prime Ministry staff sought over Gülen links

Detention warrants were issued on Friday for 153 people across Turkey as part of investigations into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news...

Press groups call on EU to be less deferential towards Turkey on rights violations

Several international press organization under the flagship of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) urged the European Union and its member states to use their influence...

Turkish court rules HDP Co-chair Demirtaş to remain behind bars

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was absent from the first hearing of his trial after spending 399 days in pretrial detention as...

Report: Zarrab accused of rape by former cellmate

Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, a key prosecution witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker charged with violating US sanctions on...

Pro-Erdoğan businessman offers $780K reward for arrest of Rubin and Fuller

A pro-Erdoğan businessman in Turkey is offering a TL 3 million ($780,000) reward to anyone whose information leads to the arrest of Graham Fuller...

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