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[UPDATE] Professor Özaydın released pending trial under foreign travel prohibition

Prominent professor and social scientist İştar Gözaydın, who has been behind bars since late December on terror charges, was released pending trial by a...

American pastor jailed over Gülen links asks Trump to fight for his release

An American pastor who has been jailed on bogus terrorism charges in Turkey for more than five months has asked US President Donald Trump...

[UPDATE] 416 reinstated to their posts by new gov’t decree

A total of 416 people from various ministries and public institutions who were dismissed by earlier decrees were reinstated to their posts by a...

Erdoğan accuses main opposition of siding with terror groups in ‘no’ campaign

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is acting in line with terrorist groups in...

Prominent Turkish figures call for release of jailed HDP deputies

Over 440 intellectuals, politicians and writers have signed a statement calling on Turkish authorities to release imprisoned deputies of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...

Turkish journalist in exile subjected to harassment due to Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks

A Turkish journalist who fled an ongoing witch-hunt in Turkey against critical journalists and took refuge in Germany in the aftermath of a failed...

Trustee orders denial of funeral rites to PKK militants killed in clashes

Former Tunceli Governor Osman Kaymak, who was appointed as a trustee to the Tunceli Municipality in January, has ordered local authorities to deny basic...

8 Anadolu news agency reporters detained over ByLock use

Eight reporters working for Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency have been detained over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock . ByLock...

Halkbank says Turkish government working on issue of executive’s US detention

Shares in Turkish state lender Halkbank plunged as much as 16 percent on Wednesday after US prosecutors charged one of its senior executives with...

Banner lauds family minister as ‘woman who made Europe tremble’

A banner prepared by the Beykoz Municipality in İstanbul praises Family and Social Policy Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya as the "woman who made...

Justice Ministry: 498 jailed in Turkey’s prisons due to ISIL links

Turkey's Justice Ministry has announced that there are 498 people in Turkey's prisons who were jailed due to their links to the Islamic State...

Berlin launches probe into Turkish intelligence spying on Gülen followers in Germany

The German Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into whether Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has been spying on suspected supporters of the Gülen...

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