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Visually impaired journalist denied permission to withdraw disability payment

Visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat, who has been under house arrest over alleged links to the Gülen movement since late July, was denied permission to...

Court jails 16 ISIL suspects in Ankara

Sixteen people have been jailed pending trial in Ankara over suspected links to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the...

PKK attacks border post visited by Turkish PM a day earlier

Militants from the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked a military border post in the Çukurca district of southeastern Hakkari province, near the Iraqi...

State-owned TRT to take over former Zaman building

The building that served as the headquarters of the Zaman newspaper, along with Today's Zaman, the Cihan news agency and other media outlets of...

Court rules to release 6 suspects in Sultanahmet bombing trial

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled for the release of six suspects who are standing trial for complicity in a bomb attack in İstanbul...

CHP leader says seeking to jail all critics due to coup attempt not right

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Monday that it is not right to try to jail all...

Indictment seeks up to 28 months for ex-President Gül’s advisor

The chief advisor of former President Abdullah Gül, Ahmet Sever, is facing a prison sentence of 14 to 28 months on charges of insulting...

Court rules 8 HDP deputies be forcibly brought to testify in court

A Diyarbakır court hearing a trial involving the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) ruled on Monday that eight deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

Businessman who named children after Fethullah Gülen arrested

  A businessman who named his two children after Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen was arrested in Balıkesir province on Monday as part of an...

‘My only crime was to criticize gov’t,’ writes journalist from prison

Journalist and former singer Atilla Taş, who was jailed on Saturday as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, has sent a...

PEN Int’l calls for reinstatement of journalist’s wife’s travel documents

PEN International has released a statement condemning the confiscation of the passport of journalist Can Dündar’s wife at an Istanbul airport on Saturday, calling...

Turkey deploys first armed drone in operations

Turkey has finally armed its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Bayraktar TB2 with a missile and began to deploy the much-needed drone against separatist insurgents...

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