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Turkey’s intelligence head speaks to university rectors, academics in unusual conference speech

Hakan Fidan, the undersecretary of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), gave a talk at a conference on regional security at the country’s Higher Education...

Erdoğan claims opposition’s election alliance is guided by terrorist groups

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday posted a tweet in which he accused a mainstream opposition alliance formed in advance of Turkey’s approaching...

French bank claims Turkey headed for a recession

An analysis released by French bank BNP Paribas has claimed that Turkey is heading for a recession that will last several quarters. The analysis was...

ECtHR to accelerate cases of 5 Turks abducted from Azerbaijan by Turkish intelligence

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to hear the case of five Turkish citizens abducted last year in Azerbaijan in an...

Deputy: 4-year-old on antidepressants to cope with separation from jailed parents

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu brought up the case of a purge victim family in parliament on...

Turkish gov’t secretly investigated family members of critical journalists in Turkey

The Turkish government secretly investigated the family members of journalists critical of the government including their spouses and children, a document obtained by Nordic...

Turkish man wanted by US set free in Turkey following deportation from Germany: report

A Turkish citizen wanted by the US for his involvement in a terrorist attack that killed two US military personnel in Afghanistan has been...

Islam is compatible with democracy, ‘Islamic state’ is an oxymoron, Gülen writes in Le Monde

US-based Turkish Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen has said there is no incompatibility between democratic and Islamic values, adding that an “Islamic state” would be...

Syrian families in Mardin receive threatening letters with bullets

Seven Syrian refugee families living in Turkey’s southeastern Mardin province recently received threatening letters accompanied by bullets. The Mezopotamya news agency reported on Sunday that...

Russia says could police Syria-Turkey safe zone: report

Russian military police could be deployed in a proposed “safe zone” along Syria’s northern border with Turkey, Russian news agencies cited foreign minister Sergei...

US-based Turkish businessman files federal racketeering suit against Erdoğan ally

Yalçın Ayaşlı, a US-based Turkish businessman, on Tuesday filed a federal racketeering complaint in New Hampshire accusing Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, chief executive of SBK...

27 academics get 57 years in total for signing peace declaration

Twenty-seven academics have been handed down sentences totaling 57 years, 11 months and five days on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in signing a...

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