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[VIDEO] Police detain Kurdish mayor, hang Turkish flag on facade of town hall

A group of plainclothes policemen on Friday detained Mehmet Aydın, the mayor of Mardin’s Savur district from the pro–Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), and...

97 detained near Georgian border as thousands try to flee Turkey’s witch hunt

At least 97 people have been detained over the past four months while attempting to escape from Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt to Georgia, the...

Islamist professor: Purge victims are in a post-modern concentration camp

Professor Cihangir İslam, who is among over 7,000 academics fired from their jobs in Turkey in a post-coup purge, said the people who have...

Turkish woman says she feels pain when twin sister is tortured in prison

The twin sister of 23-year-old Seda Kaya, who was arrested on terror charges on July 2 of last year, says she has been feeling...

Wife says dismissed police chief left to die of colorectal cancer in İzmir prison

Yavuz Bölek, a former police chief who was dismissed from his job following corruption probes implicating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has colorectal cancer...

Germany says no knowledge of Erdoğan rally on their soil

The spokesperson for the German ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday that they have not received any information regarding a rally by President...

2 more Turkish soldiers killed, 3 others injured in ISIL attack in al-Bab

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced in a statement on Friday that two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in Syria’s al-Bab...

4-year jail term sought for AKUT co-founder over insult charges

Co-founder and former chairman of Turkey’s prominent Search and Rescue Association (AKUT) Nasuh Mahruki is facing a jail term of one to four years...

9 TÜBİTAK members, 1 judge arrested over links to Gülen movement

Nine engineers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK) and a female judge were arrested on Thursday over links to the...

Journalist fined for ‘insulting’ Turkey’s Parliament in column

The İstanbul 2nd Penal Court of First Instance on Thursday fined columnist Enver Aysever TL 10,620 ($2,981) for “insulting” the Turkish Parliament in an...

Rector says signing peace declaration used as criterion in purge of academics

Professor Mehmet Emin Arat, rector of Marmara University, has said academics who have been dismissed from the university through government decrees were selected according...

Deputy PM says terror attacks increased due to June 7 election results

Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli has claimed that terror attacks in Turkey have increased because the Turkish people did not give sufficient support to...

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