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Turkey detains 110 over suspected ISIL ties

Turkish counterterrorism police on Tuesday detained 110 people on suspicion of activities in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...

Turkey detains 24 including seven public officials over alleged Gülen links

Turkish authorities detained 24 people, including seven public officials, in coordinated raids across 11 provinces on Monday over alleged ties to the faith-based Gülen...

France, Turkey have Europe’s most overcrowded jails: report

France and Turkey have the highest levels of prison overcrowding among Council of Europe member states, with 131 inmates for every 100 places, a...

Turkey manhunt ends as shooter dies by suicide after killing 6: reports

A massive manhunt for a gunman who killed six people in southern Turkey ended early Tuesday when he turned the gun on himself after...

Denmark moves to deport Turkish teacher despite risk of prosecution over Gülen links

Bünyamin Tekin A Danish asylum ruling has put 29-year-old Turkish mathematics teacher Tuğba Koç on the brink of forced return to Turkey after authorities accepted...

Bahçeli proposes 2 commissions to manage Turkey’s peace with PKK

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has proposed two new commissions to oversee Turkey’s peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), signaling...

Turkey’s food prices up nearly 733 percent since 2021, economist says

Food prices in Turkey have risen nearly 733 percent since September 2021 while global food prices increased only 1.2 percent over the same period,...

Iran’s World Cup team arrives in southern Turkey for training camp

Iran's football team arrived in Turkey on Monday for training camp and to complete visa applications ahead of the 2026 World Cup. The 22 players...

Turkey expands crackdown on illegal betting networks with TL 18 bln in transactions

Turkish authorities have launched two new operations targeting illegal betting networks in Antalya and Mersin provinces, taking legal action against 233 suspects whose accounts...

Defendant says prosecutors directed false testimony in İstanbul mayor trial

A businessman standing trial along with İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and hundreds of others said in court on Monday that testimony he previously gave...

Pro-Erdoğan commentator arrested in illegal betting probe

Pro-government television commentator Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a longtime supporter and close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been arrested as part of...

2 police officers killed in shooting in northwestern Turkey

Two police officers were killed on Sunday when a suspect opened fire on a plainclothes police team that had gone to a business center...

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