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Turkish economy minister likens HDP deputies to rats

Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi on Saturday likened pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who were arrested last week to rats coming out of...

Cumhuriyet CEO arrested

The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, who was detained at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Friday upon his return from Germany based on...

[BREAKING] Cumhuriyet CEO referred to court for arrest

The Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, was referred to court on Saturday after his detention at İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Friday upon...

After Germany and Belgium, Turks protest France for ‘supporting terrorism’

A group of protesters gathered in front of the French Embassy in Ankara on Saturday in reaction to alleged Western support for terrorist groups...

Kılıçdaroğlu: System cannot be changed due to one man’s desire

Commenting on an ongoing debate over a switch to an executive presidency on Saturday, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said...

ISIL reclaims Diyarbakır attack on magazine cover

Adding to conflicting claims over the perpetrator of a deadly car bomb attack on Nov. 4 in Diyarbakır, the Islamic State in Iraq and...

[VİDEO] Turkish police raid People’s Law Bureau, arrest attorneys

Newly emerged video footage shows the moment a group of Turkish special operations forces raid the leftist People's Law Bureau in Ankara early on Saturday...

[VİDEO] Boğaziçi students ridicule Erdoğan’s refusal to appoint elected rector in video clip

Students from one of Turkey’s top universities prepared a video clip that makes fun of recent government decrees, canceling intra-university elections for university rectors...

5 pro-Kurdish HDP advisors detained in Turkey, denied access to legal counsel

  Turkish police have detained five advisors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party said in a statement on Friday. Underlining that the...

Justice minister rejects NTV claim that Gülen followers planning prison break

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has rejected claims by a pro-government news channel that jailed members of the faith-based Gülen movement, which the government...

6-months pregnant woman with 13-month-old child held in overcrowded cell

Buket Büyükçelebi, a six-months-pregnant academic with a 13-month-old child has been kept in a 33-person holding cell in a Gaziantep prison for three months,...

CHP expels 3,896 members who did not vote for party in Nov. 1 elections

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has expelled 3,896 of its members after discovering that they did not vote for the CHP in...

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