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Turkey’s top judicial body dismisses 202 judges, prosecutors over Gülen links

Turkey's Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) on Friday dismissed 202 judges and prosecutors over their links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which...

Erdoğan to Turks in EU: Have 5 children, you are the future of Europe

Amid strained relations with several European countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Turkish expatriates living in Europe to have at least five...

Mother with son with leukemia faces threats, insults due to Gülen links

A public prosecutor asked a mother who was arrested due to her alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement to become an informant or...

Inmates subjected to maltreatment, torture at Antalya Prison, relatives say

Inmates incarcerated in Antalya Prison are being subjected to various types of torture and maltreatment by the prison authorities, according to a report on...

Teacher gets 6-year jail term over Gülen links

Bilgihan Aksan, a teacher dismissed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government as part of a witch-hunt following a July 15 coup attempt,...

Turkish minister: Let’s send 15,000 refugees every month, see how it shocks EU

As tension between Turkey and European countries continues over bans on Turkish ministers waging referendum campaigns on the continent, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu threatened...

Turkish FM: Tillerson to visit Ankara on March 30

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Thursday that his counterpart, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, will visit Turkey on March 30. Speaking during...

İstanbul Governor’s Office interferes in Armenian patriarchal election

The İstanbul Governor’s Office interfered in the Armenian Patriarchate election on Wednesday by sending a notice stating that it was “legally impossible” to start...

Professor Gözaydın faces 10-year jail sentence on terror charges

An indictment prepared by an İzmir prosecutor seeks a jail sentence of between five and 10 years for prominent professor and social scientist İştar...

2 HDP deputies detained in Ardahan during ‘no’ campaign for referendum   

Two deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Berdan Öztürk and Mehmet Emin Adıyaman were detained on Thursday as they were holding a...

Rector cancels speech by CHP deputy chairperson at Boğaziçi University

The rector of Boğaziçi University, Professor Mehmed Özkan, has cancelled a speech to be delivered by Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy chairperson and party...

UN judge in pre-trial detention denies Gülen links over Bylock use

Aydin Sefa Akay, a judge for the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) who is in pre-trial detention in Turkey on coup...

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