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Motion filed against Demirtaş for insulting Erdoğan, provocation

A motion has been filed against pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Demirtaş, who has been...

15 more detained for insulting President Erdoğan

Fourteen people in İzmir and the chief editor of the Redaktif website, Hakan Gülseven, in Balıkesir were detained on Friday on grounds of insulting...

12 people including academics detained over Gülen links

As part of a witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused by the government of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15,...

9 PKK members ‘neutralized,’ 8 detained

Nine members of the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been “neutralized” in military operations in Siirt province, while eight others who were...

Turkish PM Yıldırım asks EU to speed up accession process

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said Turkey “sincerely” wants to join the European Union and asked the EU to move more quickly in...

Hunger striker Gülmen says justice is dying on 113th day of hunger strike

Fired educator Nuriye Gülmen, who has been on a hunger strike for 113 days to protest her dismissal under state of emergency decree-laws, has...

86-year-old Isparta man in 11th month of arrest on coup charges

Ali Osman Karahan, an 86-year-old Turkish man with walking and speaking difficulties, has been kept in an Isparta prison for almost 12 months over...

Another woman detained while visiting husband jailed over Gülen links

Forty-two-year-old Özen Alkan was detained on Monday while visiting her husband, under arrest over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

School director sentenced to 96 years in prison for abusing 10 students

A high school director in Bolu province has been sentenced to 96 years, 10 months in prison after conviction for abusing 10 female students,...

Journalist says Erdoğan tracking phone calls of ‘March of Justice’ participants

Nationalist Yeniçağ daily Ankara representative Ahmet Takan has claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered an investigation into the “March of Justice“ launched by...

TBB chair denies involvement in any new party

Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB) Chairman Metin Feyzioğlu has denied claims suggesting that he would take part in a new party that will...

CHP deputy says Turkish judges, prosecutors tired of pressure

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Dursun Çiçek has said judges and prosecutors in Turkey are tired of government pressure and that...

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