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[UPDATE] Newly released HDP deputy Baluken arrested in Ankara

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İdris Baluken, who was recently released from jail, was arrested in Ankara on Tuesday after a Diyarbakır court...

Turkish Parliament strips jailed HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ of parliamentary membership

The Turkish Parliament has stripped Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who was jailed on terror charges in November, of...

Major says no one in Erdoğan assassination attempt trial has links to Gülen

One of 37 officers who are standing trial on charges of taking part in an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a...

Bahçeli vows unconditional support for reintroduction of death penalty

Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli has called on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to speed up plans to...

Kılıçdaroğlu says AKP rule worse than Sept. 12 regime

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has accused the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of staging a civilian...

1 Turkish soldier killed, 2 others injured in Syria’s al-Bab

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said in a statement on Tuesday that one soldier was killed and two others were wounded in Syria’s al-Bab...

Purged academic says ‘no’ vote in referendum will measure democracy in Turkey

İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of constitutional law at Marmara University who was dismissed along with 330 other academics by a government decree in early February,...

6 students dancing to Kurdish music released after brief detention in Aydın

Six students from the Aydın Anadolu İmam-Hatip High School were released on Monday following a brief detention for dancing to Kurdish music in class. According...

Coup commander: Military chief’s advisor told us coup was within chain of command

Col. Muhsin Kutsi Barış, commander of the Guard Regiment, said in court on Monday that the top adviser of Chief of General Staff Gen....

Pro-government columnist: Turkey rejected YPG involvement in Raqqa

Abdulkadir Selvi, a staunchly pro-government columnist with the Hürriyet daily, wrote on Monday that Turkey rejected an American offer of the involvement of Kurdish...

Coup commanders: We received orders from HQ and were trapped

Brig. Gen. Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş, the commander of the team that targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hotel in Marmaris on the night of a...

[VIDEO] Erdoğan’s relative sets up group for mobilization in event of coup attempt

Orhan Uzuner,the father-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son Bilal, has established an armed group to mobilize the public in the event of a...

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