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55 academics call on Erdoğan to release Kavala

Fifty-five academics have written an open letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calling for the release of businessman and civil activist Osman Kavala,...

CHP leader on Zarrab case: Corruption is not a national issue

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım over a case against Reza Zarrab, saying no...

University cancels Davutoğlu’s conference

Istanbul's Marmara University has surprisingly cancelled a conference that was to feature Ahmet Davutoğlu, former prime minister of Turkey, Hürriyet reported on Thursday. Davutoğlu was...

Report: 331 more soldiers detained in last week on coup charges

Police detained at least 331 Turkish soldiers over the past week in Tekirdağ province as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which...

Turkish police detain 32, search for 239 people over links to Gülen movement

Turkish police detained 32 civil servants and are searching for 239 others under detention warrants issued for them as part of investigations into the...

Court rules to continue pretrial detention for AI Turkey Chair Kılıç

An İstanbul court on Wednesday decided for the continuation of the pre-trial detention of Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International Turkey...

Lawyer: Zarrab to cooperate with US authorities

Cahit Akbulut, a New York-based lawyer who is closely following a case against Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab in the District Court for the...

US: Turkey being ‘ridiculous’ in accusations of conspiracy in Zarrab case

Turkey is being “ridiculous” in its accusations that the US is trying to foment “some sort of a coup” with regard to the upcoming...

Judge Berman implies Turkish-Iranian gold trader Zarrab is still part of case in US

Judge Richard M. Berman, the senior federal judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York who is hearing the case...

Report exposes death from torture of Turkish teacher in police custody

A new report from the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) titled “Tortured to Death” exposes the case of 42-year-old history teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who...

Zaman journalist Ayşenur Parıldak sentenced to 7.5 years in prison

An Ankara court on Tuesday sentenced former Zaman daily reporter Ayşenur Parıldak, who has been in pretrial detention since August 2016, to seven years,...

Turkish family of 5 drowns trying to flee to Greece

A Turkish family of five attempting to flee persecution in Turkey has drowned in the Aegean Sea near the Greek island of Lesvos, according...

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