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Minister: 1,846 expelled from TÜBİTAK due to Gülen links

Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Faruk Özlü announced on Friday that a total of 1,846 people have been sacked from the Scientific and...

Bild editor turns down TRT’s interview request over imprisonment of journalists in Turkey

Julian Röpcke, a political editor for the German Bild daily, tweeted on Thursday that he turned down an interview request by Turkey’s state-run TRT...

12 academics, university staff detained in Muğla over Gülen links

Twelve academics and staff members from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University were detained on Thursday over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which Turkish...

Murdered Terzi invited to Ankara by Gen. Aksakallı, says suspected putschist

Amid debates over new revelations about what happened during a July 15 coup attempt, 1st Lt. Enes Yılmaz, a suspect in the failed coup,...

Victim of torture in Kurdish village arrested

Abdi Aykut, who was allegedly tortured during a recent military blockade of the village of Koruköy in southeast Turkey’s Mardin province, was arrested on...

Prosecutor who put Bilal Erdoğan reference on record demoted

Prosecutor Bayram Kuş, who put on the record the testimony of an imprisoned local governor who gave President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal as...

Jailed journalist Öğreten gets married in prison

Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested on Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...

Pro-gov’t TV presenter avoids prosecution for insult of Armenian deputy

The Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has declined to investigate pro-government A Haber TV presenter Özlem Özcan, who called Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from...

Indictment seeks 20-year jail term for HDP deputy Zana

An indictment prepared by a Diyarbakır prosecutor seeks up to a 20-year sentence for pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana on...

Pro-Kurdish Ağrı Mayor Sakık removed from post

Turkey's Interior Ministry on Wednesday appointed a trustee to the Ağrı Municipality, which had been run by pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Mayor Sırrı...

24 detained over Gülen links in İzmir-based operation

A total of 24 people including former police officers as well as employees of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) and...

Turkey blocks German Bild website after criticism of Deniz Yücel’s arrest

Access to the German daily Bild’s website has been blocked by the Turkish government, several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The decision came after Bild...

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