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HDP Co-chair Demirtaş calls on gov’t, PKK to silence weapons

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has called on the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to...

Erdoğan says emergency rule may be extended for another 3 months

Amid widespread criticism of rights violations during Turkey’s emergency rule, which went into effect in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...

Foreign Ministry issues circular asking diplomats to return missed calls

Human resources department of Turkey's Foreign Ministry has issued a circular asking ministry personnel in Turkey and across the world to return missed phone...

Kılıçdaroğlu calls for removal of wreckage in Parliament caused by July 15 bombings

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called on the Turkish government to remove the wreckage in the Parliament building caused...

Detained eye doctor missing for weeks under emergency rules

Eye doctor Ayhan Yılmaz has been missing since he was detained by Turkish police under the post-coup emergency rules, according to his journalist brother...

Number of purge victims exceeds 1 million, CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu says

The number of people affected by the Turkish government’s crackdown on the Gülen movement has already surpassed 1 million, main opposition Republican People’s Party...

Erdoğan asks the US ‘not to harbor’ Gülen in effort to expand witch-hunt

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said during an interview on Monday that the United States should not harbor US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who...

Journalist reveals organizational structure of Turkey’s purge commissions

Opposition newspaper Sözcü’s Ankara Bureau Chief Saygı Öztürk has uncovered the main actors in Turkey’s recent cleansing of dissenting voices from within state institutions,...

Coup brochures, videos by Education Ministry mark first day of school

As new education year started on Monday, the Ministry of National Education distributed “Attempt to invade Turkey with coup” brochures at all state schools across...

Turkey detains two ISIL suspects with suicide belts in Southeast

Counterterrorism police in Turkey’s southeastern Şanlıurfa province on Monday detained two suspects found with suicide belts and explosives. According to the official Anadolu news...

RSF urges Turkey to ‘rescind draconian state of emergency decrees’

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report released on Monday, called on the Turkish government to rescind decrees that have been enforced under the...

Arrest warrant issued for another famous Turkish baklava maker

An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for famous baklava seller Nejat Güllü after...

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