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Indictment seeks lifetime imprisonment for jailed journalist Avcı

An indictment which has been prepared against journalist and retired public prosecutor Gültekin Avcı seeks a life sentence and an additional jail term of...

File photo shows Erdoğan visited by US consul after his conviction in 1998

As President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan heavily criticized some Western envoys on Saturday who attended the trial of two journalists facing espionage charges, a photo...

One soldier and police officer killed in curfew town Nusaybin

A soldier and a police officer were killed in Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin on Sunday as clashes intensified between the...

PM Davutoğlu offers condolences to fallen soldier’s father on live broadcast

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Saturday took a break from a live news conference to talk to the father of a soldier who was...

Pro-gov’t media accuses prosecutor Bharara of being part of “parallel structure”

Several pro-government newspapers have ran stories in which they accused the US attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara as being...

Davutoğlu vows to pursue presidential system-based new constitution

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government will take every step necessary to adopt a new...

CHP local official beaten in apparent politically-motivated attack

A senior local official of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was severely beaten by two men in what appears to be a...

Erdoğan blasts UK consul general for attending Dündar hearing

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed the British Consul General Leigh Turner as well as other EU consul generals for attending the hearing of...

60 percent of Sur district to be expropriated after conflict

The government has moved to expropriate 60 percent of the district of Sur, in southeast Diyarbakir province after army operations against the PKK lasting...

Parallel structure blamed again, as Erdoğan shifts blame of dead soldiers

Only days after telling Turkey that the parallel structure had been dealt with, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again used the fictitious term...

23 released pending trial in KPSS cheating case

Twenty-three people, who had been among 54 suspects who had been jailed as part of an investigation into alleged cheating on the centralized 2010...

Davutoğlu defends foundation linked to teacher accused of child abuse

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has claimed that the Ensar Foundation, which has been at the heart of a recent controversy fuelled by the...

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