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Indictment claims Gülen secretly made cardinal by John Paul II

  An indictment prepared by an İzmir prosecutor against individuals who were arrested over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement includes the claim that...

AKP co-founder Arınç’s nephew, son-in-law among those sacked from state bodies

Two relatives of a former speaker of parliament and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Bülent Arınç were dismissed from their positions by...

4 injured in bomb explosion outside İstanbul bar

  Four people were injured in a suspected bomb explosion outside a bar in İstanbul’s Çağlayan neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday. Unidentified parties on...

Former Istanbul police chief jailed over alleged links to Gülen

Former Istanbul Chief of Police Hüseyin Çapkın has been jailed over alleged links to a movement inspired by US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. It...

 Dancer dismissed for selling house through Bank Asya account

Yücel Emre Kaynarsu, a principal dancer at the İzmir Opera and Ballet, was reportedly dismissed from his job for using a Bank Asya account...

Journalist Can Dündar’s wife banned from travelling abroad

The Turkish government has banned the wife of former Editor-in-Chief of the Cumhuriyet daily Can Dündar from travelling abroad after seizing her passport at...

28 security force members, 100 PKK terrorists killed in 2 days

At least 28 members of the Turkish security forces were killed during clashes between the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the military in...

76 military judges, prosecutors sacked in new wave of purge

The Ministry of Defense has dismissed 76 military court judges and prosecutors over links to the Gülen movement as a post-coup-attempt purge widens. The dismissals...

4 more journalists jailed in Turkey

Journalists Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Atilla Taş, Mutlu Gölgeçen and Murat Aksoy were jailed in İstanbul on Saturday as part of an investigation into the...

80-year-old man with cane handcuffed, detained over Gülen links

An 80-year-old Turkish man with walking and speaking difficulties was handcuffed and detained by Turkish police on Sept. 1 over suspected links to the Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan: President is head of judiciary, legislature and executive

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, when departing for the G-20 Summit in China from İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Friday, told reporters that the president is...

AKP government cancels 115 more press cards

Turkish authorities have cancelled the permanent press cards of 115 journalists for their alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state run Anadolu news...

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