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MHP deputy: Judiciary acting in fear due to political pressure

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Samsun deputy Erhan Usta has said the judiciary is acting in fear in investigations linked...

Education Ministry: Wives should obey their husbands, not marry atheists

A textbook on the life of the Prophet Muhammad prepared by the Turkish Education Ministry in the framework of a highly controversial new national...

59 detained in one week over Gülen links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 59 people have been detained in one week due to their alleged links to the Gülen...

HDP says gov’t has given security forces a blank check for civilian killings in SE Turkey

Amid news stories that a Turkish drone attack killed one civilian and wounded three others in Hakkari on Friday, pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)...

HDP says 3 injured after military helicopter opens fire in Diyarbakır

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies said on Sunday night that fire from a military helicopter injured three villagers in southeastern Diyarbakır province’s Bağlan...

Exiled Turkish journalist ‘sworn at,’ ‘threatened with death’

Emre Uslu, an exiled journalist living in in the United States, tweeted on Sunday that he was sworn at and threatened with death in...

43 PKK militants ‘neutralized’ in one week

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 43 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been neutralized across Turkey over...

Appointment of key coup suspect’s brother stirs controversy

The appointment of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Şaban Dişli, brother of Maj. Gen. Mehmet Dişli, one of the key suspects...

Rights group says prison guards threatened with jail when they refuse to torture inmates

Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı said on Sunday that some prison guards who refused to follow...

1 soldier killed in PKK attack in Hakkari

One soldier was killed in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sunday. According to a statement by the...

US says ISIL’s Mosul financial emir lives in Turkey

The US Department of the Treasury said Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) financial emir for the Iraqi city of Mosul Salim...

98 die, 423 injured in road accidents during Eid al-Adha holiday

A total of 98 people have been killed and 423 injured in traffic accidents over the past nine days across Turkey during the Eid...

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