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Turkey releases murderer of priest Santoro along with other criminals

Following the Turkish government’s sudden decision to prematurely release nearly 40,000 convicts despite the gravity of their crimes to make space in prisons in...

2 workers killed in PKK ambush in Turkey

Two workers at a road construction site in a protected zone in Dağlıca, Hakkari province, were killed and two were injured in a terrorist...

Police detain 65 Council of State staff members in coup attempt probe

Ankara police on Thursday detained 65 staff members at one of the country’s highest courts, the Council of State, in an investigation into the...

43 detained in İzmir, Ankara over links to Gülen movement

Police detained 43 people on Friday as part of an ongoing witch hunt operation targeting the Gülen movement in İzmir and Ankara provinces. An İzmir...

40 ISIL suspects detained in operations in Konya, Adana

Forty people were detained on Friday in operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in Konya and Adana provinces. Konya...

UPDATE: 11 police officers killed, 78 wounded in PKK car bomb attack in Cizre

Eleven police officers were killed and 78 people were injured when terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants attacked a police checkpoint in a bomb-laden...

Wives of arrested officers complain husbands unjustly labelled as traitors

Wives of the 45 senior military officers who were arrested on coup charges in Sanliurfa following a failed coup attempt on July 15 have...

Nationalist leader: Attack on CHP chairman aims to spark civil war

An armed attack against main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was aimed at sparking a civil war between segments of society,...

Human rights activist Eren Keskin released after testimony

Lawyer and human rights activist Eren Keskin, formerly the co-editor of the Özgür Gündem newspaper, was released by an İstanbul court under judicial supervision...

Erdoğan appoints former aide to top court

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday appointed his former top advisor, Recai Akyel, and Professor Yusuf Şevki Hakyemez, vice rector of Karadeniz Technical...

After coup, military continues to move tanks from Istanbul

In line with a government policy to move military barracks from Istanbul and Ankara to other bases outside cities, adopted following an attempted coup...

31 arrested in Konya in gov’t witch-hunt against Gülen movement

Thirty-one people were arrested and eight more were released under judicial supervision as part of government-led operations targeting the Gülen movement — a grassroots...

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