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Journalist Altan brothers to remain under detention until Sept. 20

Veysel Ok, a lawyer for journalists Mehmet Altan and Ahmet Altan, who were detained on Sept. 10, has said the journalists' period of detention...

[OPINION] Is the Kurdish settlement process warming up?

Berk Uluç After months of almost total isolation, the Turkish government permitted visits to leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan, who is...

Turkish gov’t officials slam Der Spiegel over depiction of Erdoğan as dictator

Officials from the Turkish government have lashed out at German magazine Der Spiegel over a special edition on Turkey in which the country’s president,...

Around 20 detained in operation on DBP office

Police raided the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) provincial office in Hakkari on Thursday and detained around 20 people who have been conducting a...

CHP asks gov’t whether SADAT trained ISIL

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has asked the government about the alleged role of SADAT A.S. International Defense Consulting in training Islamic...

[OPINION] Abundant accusations, little evidence

İsmail Sezgin*/ London The Turkish media – or what is left of it – has already found Fethullah Gülen guilty of the coup attempt on...

Turkish academics victimized by post-coup crackdown unable to find work

Finding themselves unemployed after a government decree shut down more than a dozen universities across Turkey, 2,500 academics are now finding it difficult to...

Turkey set to build 174 new prisons to make space for coup purge

An unprecedented increase in the number of people jailed as part of Turkey’s ever-expanding purge following a July 15 coup attempt has created the...

Opposition leader slams arrests of journalists, writers in Turkey

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has strongly criticized the arrest of journalists and writers, lambasting the authorities for preventing them...

16 PKK members killed in Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq

A total of 16 suspected members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed by airstrikes near the border with Iraq over...

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup [OPINION – ÖZCAN KELEŞ*]

Questions we dare not ask: Gülen and the coup* Özcan Keleş** Gareth Jenkins once criticized Turkey’s infamous Ergenekon indictments on the grounds that they were “products of...

Minister says gov’t will take over 65 Gülen-linked schools abroad

Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said the Maarif Foundation, established by the government to deal with Turkish schools abroad, is planning to take over...

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