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15 detained as part of probe into Bursa suicide bombing

Fifteen individuals have been detained as part of an investigation into a suicide bombing that hit western province of Bursa on Wednesday, killing the...

Suicide bomber blow herself up in Bursa, 1 killed

A female suicide bomber on Wednesday blew herself up near a major mosque in the Turkish city of Bursa, killing herself and wounding at least...

AK Party set to shut down eight more critical TV channels, CHP deputy claims

A deputy from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Barış Yarkadaş, has claimed that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government will...

US warns of ‘credible threats’ to Turkish tourist spots

The US Embassy in Ankara warned US citizens in Turkey on Tuesday about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country. Turkey has been...

Erdoğan, gov’t distance themselves from speaker’s secularism remarks

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and several officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Tuesday said a controversial call made by...

Top religious body expels seven imams over links to Gülen movement

Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate, which took disciplinary action against some imams and muezzins in the western province of Denizli last February, has expelled seven...

AK Party says speaker’s call for secularism-free charter his personal opinion

Officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) have said a recent call by Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman for a constitution that...

23 individuals detained in gov’t-led ‘parallel structure’ probe

Twenty-three individuals have been detained across four provinces in new wave of operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement. The operations, which were based in southern...

Parliament speaker says secularism should have no place in new constitution

Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman has said the country’s new constitution should not include the principle of secularism, calling for a new charter which...

PKK’s Bayık says terrorist group in ‘direct contact’ with anti-ISIL coalition

Leader of the military wing of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Cemil Bayık has told BBC in an interview that the PKK had...

Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Dündar fined over articles on corruption probe

Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar has been fined by a local court over his columns and a series of news stories covering the content...

Businessman İpek’s brother arrested as part of gov’t-led probe

Cafer Tekin İpek, brother of Koza İpek Holding Chairman Akın İpek, was arrested in Ankara on Monday as part of an operation targeting the...

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