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Erdoğan advisor says Turkey to have only 2 political parties under presidential system

Burhan Kuzu, an advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy from İstanbul, said on Wednesday that there...

Another Turkish soldier wounded in ISIL attacks in Syria’s al-Bab dies of injuries

The number of Turkish soldiers who have died as a result of an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Syria’s al-Bab...

Banner suggesting Muslims avoid Christmas, New Year’s celebrations draws ire on Twitter

  A banner believed to have been hung on a street in İstanbul's İkitelli district that shows a man with a Muslim cap and beard...

Sabah columnist: Gülen is a Jew, quickly smells money and power

Pro-Erdoğan Sabah daily columnist Ersin Ramoğlu claimed in an article published on Wednesday that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is a Jew and that...

HSYK’s Yılmaz admits it was a trick, confessors not to return to judicial posts

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) Mehmet Yılmaz has denied a previously made statement and said confessor prosecutors and...

HDP’s deputy co-chair Tuğluk arrested

The deputy co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Aysel Tuğluk, was arrested by a Diyarbakır court on Wednesday as part of a terror...

Military blocks commemoration of Kurdish villagers killed in bomb attack

  The Turkish military has prevented families of the Uludere (Roboski) victims from commemorating 34 Kurdish villagers who were killed in a bomb attack by...

HDP deputy claims İstanbul imam called for killings of Kurds

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya claimed in a parliamentary commission that an imam in İstanbul called on people to take up...

4 former AKP ministers face investigation over Gülen links

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office is assessing a complaint filed by a lawyer in İstanbul accusing four former ministers from the ruling Justice and...

Coup Commission sends written questions to chief of general staff

Written questions from the parliamentary Coup Commission were sent on Wednesday to Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar after the commission declined to...

Turkey’s dairy giant owner and 18 others arrested on coup charges

Nineteen people including Nevzat Serin, owner of the Denizli-based dairy Aynes Gıda, were arrested Wednesday on coup charges and links to the Gülen movement. Serin...

Erdoğan advisor: MHP will have voice in governance once presidential system implemented

Burhan Kuzu, an advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a Justice and Development Party (AKP) İstanbul deputy, said on Wednesday that the opposition...

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