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Number of purge victims exceeds 1 million, CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu says

The number of people affected by the Turkish government’s crackdown on the Gülen movement has already surpassed 1 million, main opposition Republican People’s Party...

Erdoğan asks the US ‘not to harbor’ Gülen in effort to expand witch-hunt

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said during an interview on Monday that the United States should not harbor US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who...

Journalist reveals organizational structure of Turkey’s purge commissions

Opposition newspaper Sözcü’s Ankara Bureau Chief Saygı Öztürk has uncovered the main actors in Turkey’s recent cleansing of dissenting voices from within state institutions,...

Coup brochures, videos by Education Ministry mark first day of school

As new education year started on Monday, the Ministry of National Education distributed “Attempt to invade Turkey with coup” brochures at all state schools across...

Turkey detains two ISIL suspects with suicide belts in Southeast

Counterterrorism police in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province on Monday detained two suspects found with suicide belts and explosives. According to the official Anadolu news...

RSF urges Turkey to ‘rescind draconian state of emergency decrees’

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report released on Monday, called on the Turkish government to rescind decrees that have been enforced under the...

Arrest warrant issued for another famous Turkish baklava maker

An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for famous baklava seller Nejat Güllü after...

Lawyers demand judge recusal in Cerattepe case over emergency rule concerns

Lawyers representing 751 people who filed a lawsuit for cancellation of the building of a mining complex in Artvin's Cerattepe district demanded the recusal...

UPDATE Court arrests man who attacked nurse in shorts on İstanbul bus

  A court in İstanbul has arrested Abdullah Çakıroğlu, who attacked a young nurse, Ayşegül Terzi, on a bus in İstanbul’s Maslak neighborhood last week due...

Racist graffiti scrawled on wall of Armenian school in İstanbul

What appears to be racist graffiti was found scrawled on the courtyard wall of an Armenian school in İstanbul on Monday, the first day...

Kindergarten principal commits suicide after wife suspended from teaching job

The lifeless body of a kindergarten principal, Ali Derebaşı, whose wife was among the thousands of teachers who have been suspended from their posts...

No country is safe for Gülen sympathizers, Erdoğan says

  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday threatened followers of the faith-based Gülen movement living all over the world, saying that no country is safe...

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