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Elderly Alzheimer’s patient arrested on terrorism charges over Gülen links

An 81-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links to...

Turkey’s ruling party seeks to grant ‘neighborhood watchmen’ detention powers

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has drafted a bill that allows “neighborhood watchmen” (bekçi in Turkish) to carry out ID checks and take people into...

Turkey briefly detains journalist over anonymous 2017 complaint

Turkish journalist Gülşen İşeri was detained on Wednesday morning while visiting a civil registry office for passport renewal in İstanbul and was released later in the day,...

Turkey blocks Greek Cypriots from attending Geneva conference: report

Turkey has blocked a request from the Republic of Cyprus to take part in the Geneva Disarmament Conference as an adversarial relationship between the two countries...

US prosecutors seek escalating fines against Turkey’s Halkbank: report

The US government said on Tuesday that Turkey's state-owned Halkbank should be subjected to escalating fines totaling millions of dollars until it responds in...

Russia has supplied more than 120 missiles for S-400 system in Turkey: official

More than 120 surface-to-air guided missiles have been supplied by Russia to Turkey as part of an S-400 air defense system, a military diplomatic source told...

81-year-old Alzheimer’s patient detained over Gülen links

A 81-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links to the...

EU denies further cuts in pre-accession aid to Turkey: report

An EU spokesman on Sunday denied media reports from the previous day that claimed the bloc had agreed to massive new cuts to pre-accession aid to...

Hrant Dink commemorated in İstanbul 13 years after his murder: report

Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday outside the former offices of the Agos newspaper in İstanbul where Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was murdered 13 years ago,...

Mother of jailed military cadet prevented from launching ‘Justice March,’ detained

Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 and...

EU cuts pre-accession aid to Turkey by 75 percent: report

The EU has cut pre-accession aid to Turkey by 75 percent, according to a letter sent to the European Parliament by EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep...

Turkey’s foreign policy determined by Russia’s Putin, opposition leader says

The leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said Turkey’s foreign policy is being determined by Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the government’s...

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