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PM makes connection between US Consulate employee and Halkbank’s Atilla

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Tuesday said Turkey does not need to get permission from the US to detain consulate staff members, reminding...

Turkey slams PACE for awarding human rights prize to jailed lawyer

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for awarding the 2017 Vaclav Havel Human Rights...

Report: Turkey grants martyrdom to soldier burned to death by ISIL

The Turkish military has acknowledged that Sefter Taş, one of two Turkish soldiers who were allegedly burned to death by Islamic State in Iraq...

Turkish forces start surveillance, reconnaissance in Syria’s Idlib province

Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) units on Sunday launched military surveillance and reconnaissance activities in the northwestern Syrian province İdlib as part of the multinational...

Columnist: Erdoğan imposes Twitter ban on Ankara Mayor Gökçek

Turkish President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has imposed a Twitter ban on Ankara Mayor Melih...

Minor given 21-month suspended sentence for insulting Erdoğan

A.Ş., 13, was handed down a 21-month suspended sentence for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, the artıgerçek news website reported...

Imprisoned journalists claim to have been tortured in Turkey

Thirteen inmates including journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Serkan Erdoğan from the Dicle news agency (Dihaber) and Özgürlükçü Demokrasi daily, respectively, both of which were...

Swedish-Turkish journalist wanted by Turkey returns to Sweden

Swedish-Turkish journalist and writer Hamza Yalçın, arrested in Spain in August at the request of Turkey, has returned home to Sweden after Spain decided...

Erdoğan’s press office denies meeting with mayor

The Presidential Press Office on Friday denied media reports that Turkish President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip...

Pro-government magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry

Pro-government satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and ultranationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli steering...

19 more military members detained over Gülen links

Nineteen military personnel were detained on Thursday across Turkey as part of a Trabzon-based operation targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkey’s...

Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputy Konca of parliamentary status

The Turkish Parliament has stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca of her parliamentary status. According to the T24 website, Konca’s parliamentary...

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