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Gen. Akar’s wife dons headscarf during Victory Day reception

Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar’s wife, Şule Akar, put on a headscarf on Wednesday as the Quran was being read at an...

Report: Turkish security forces located prime coup suspect, failed to catch him

Turkish security forces located Adil Öksüz, the prime suspect of a failed coup last year, when he was trying to flee Turkey but failed...

Turkey celebrates Victory Day, commemorating end of War of Independence

Turkey on Wednesday celebrated Victory Day, marking the 95th anniversary of the Aug. 30, 1922 victory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk over the Greek military,...

Key coup suspect’s brother named top Erdoğan aide

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman and Sakarya deputy Şaban Dişli, brother of Maj. Gen. Mehmet Dişli, one of the key suspects...

Author Aslı Erdoğan unable to accept award due to travel ban

Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who was released on Dec. 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem...

Pro-gov’t daily targets Doğan media, suggest gov’t seizure of Hürriyet

The pro-government Türkiye daily and its columnists targeted the Doğan media group on Wednesday and suggested that the government seize its largest media outlet,...

AKP calls CHP’s justice congress final declaration ‘a shame’

Spokesperson for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Mahir Ünal has said a final declaration announced by the main opposition Republican People’s Party...

TSK develops software to identify Gülen supporters in army

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has developed software to identify members of the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government of mounting...

CHP leader says they will not accept one-man rule

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said they are not going to accept one-man rule at the conclusion on Tuesday...

165 more MHP members resign to join Turkey’s new ‘Center Democrat Party’

A total of 165 members of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) Balıkesir provincial branch have resigned to join former MHP deputy Meral Akşener, who...

22,000 inmates sleep on the floor in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons

At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on the floor as the prison population has exceeded 224,000 for the first time in Turkey’s...

Jailed jurist’s daughter says ostracized by professors, classmates before father’s death

Buket Erdoğan, the daughter of recently deceased former Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Erdoğan, said her lecturers and classmates would pretend not to...

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