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Galatasaray expels 5 including former footballers, governors over Gülen links

The disciplinary board of the Galatasaray football club on Wednesday expelled from membership three former players and two former governors who are currently under...

Prominent journalist Cemal appears in court over insulting Erdoğan

Renowned journalist Hasan Cemal appeared in court on Wednesday as part of a trial in which he is accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip...

 PKK kidnaps 4, including 2 special sergeants, in Hakkari

Four people, including two special sergeants, were kidnapped by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Wednesday. The PKK...

Court decides to merge trials of 2 journalists, 1 deputy over MİT truck story

An İstanbul court on Wednesday decided to merge the trial of journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül with that of Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

MHP expels emergency convention delegation members from party

The disciplinary board of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Wednesday decided to expel three party members from the party who were members of...

Man shot during attempted attack on Israeli Embassy in Ankara

An assailant wielding a knife was shot and wounded by security guards as he attempted to storm the Israeli Embassy building in Ankara on...

Gov’t appoints trustee to yet another municipality in Turkey’s Southeast

Following the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities by the government earlier this month, another municipality in the İdil district of the southeastern province...

Turkish military defectors say they are secular Kemalists, fear torture if extradited

Eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July have said they are secular Kemalists and have...

President of Siirt Bar Association detained on coup charges

Siirt Bar Association President Mehmet Cemal Acar was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Altan brothers asked about Sledgehammer coup plot during police interrogation

On the 11th day of their detention, journalist and author brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan were asked about a suspected military coup plan...

Students threatened by school after refusing to write poems on Turkey’s failed coup

A group of students at an İstanbul high school have been threatened with disciplinary action after they refused to write poems and letters about what...

Turkey detains bar association head, 5 lawyers in post-coup purge

A total of 6 lawyers, among them the president of Trabzon Bar Association Orhan Öngöz, were detained as part of an investigation into the...

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