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Metropoll’s Sencar taken to Tekirdağ for interrogation over Gülen links

Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar, who was detained on Saturday, has been taken to Tekirdağ province as...

İstanbul phase of main coup trial adjourned until August

The trial of 24 people who are accused of leading a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 that is being held...

Interior Ministry: 48 PKK militants neutralized in one week

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 48 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists have been neutralized in 548 operations...

35 more gendarmerie officers detained over Gülen links

Thirty-five gendarmerie officers were detained on Monday as part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting people linked with the faith-based Gülen movement, which the government...

Turkey to revoke citizenship of 130 abroad including Gülen, HDP deputies

Turkey's Interior Ministry has released a list of 130 people who are currently abroad including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and two deputies from the...

California passes bill banning investment in Turkey over denial of ‘Armenian genocide’

The California State Assembly has passed a bill that prohibits two state bodies from making additional or new investments, or renewing existing investments, in Turkey...

Ruling AKP complains of slow progress in coup trials, executives to attend hearing

The ruling Justice and Development Party is frustrated with the slow progress of trials concerning a failed coup attempt last summer and will send...

Turkey says US-backed Raqqa operation started Friday night

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Sunday that a pre-planned offensive to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in...

Aydınlık Editor-in-Chief Yücel released

İlker Yücel, editor-in-chief of the Aydınlık daily, who was arrested by a court after his detention in Turkey’s Iğdır province on Saturday, was released...

Kılıçdaroğlu discusses strengthening democracy in Turkey with opposition leaders

Main opposition Republican People's Party Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will meet with pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Serpil Kemalbay after meeting with former Nationalist...

Court arrests Aydınlık Editor-in-Chief Yücel

İlker Yücel, editor-in-chief of the Aydınlık daily, which is affiliated with the ultranationalist Homeland Party (VP) of Doğu Perinçek, was arrested by a court...

PM’s chief advisor detained over Gülen links

Birol Erdem, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s chief advisor, was detained on Saturday in Ankara as part of a witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen...

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