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Turkey, Israel to examine building gas pipeline

Israel and Turkey on Thursday agreed to open discussions on building a gas pipeline to transport Israeli gas to Europe, as the Israeli energy...

Prison guard suspended from job over Gülen links commits suicide

A prison guard who was recently suspended from his job at an Adıyaman prison in eastern Turkey was found hanging in the stairwell of...

US folk singer Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy...

Akşener launches legal appeal against expulsion from MHP

Former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy and leadership candidate Meral Akşener on Thursday filed a lawsuit with an Ankara court requesting an interim injunction...

Turkish Lira hits record low against dollar on political concerns

The Turkish Lira hit a record low against the dollar on Thursday over fears of a political uncertainty that could be triggered by a...

Police raid Turkish journalist’s home over terror links, seize his camera

Tunceli police raided home of Doğan News Agency reporter Ferid Demir, on accusations of supporting and abetting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on...

Torture during detention renders head of educators union unable to walk

Under custody for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, the head of AKTIF SEN Educators Union’s Afyon branch has been tortured so heavily...

Turkish university removes 3,949 books from library in Gülen paranoia

Turkey’s Çanakkale 18 Mart University (ÇOMÜ) has taken out of its libraries a total of 3,949 books written by Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen and...

215 more police officers face detention over use of ByLock

As part of an Ankara-based operation, detention warrants have been issued for 215 police officers including 147 inspectors due to their use of a...

48, including HDP, DBP politicians, detained in Turkey’s Southeast

Turkish police on Wednesday detained 48 people including pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) provincial and district co-chairpersons in the...

Pro-gov’t daily claims Turkey considering purchase of Russian air defense system

The staunchly pro-government Yeni Akit daily claimed in a report on Wednesday that Turkey is contemplating the purchase of a Russian S-400 air defense...

Cirque du Soleil trucks seized in Turkey amid rift over cancelled shows

An interlocutory injunction ruling by an İstanbul court seized 23 trucks, loaded with the equipments of world famous circus Cirque du Soleil and did...

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