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3 released in Kayseri-based probe against Gülen movement

Bekir Boydak, İlyas Boydak and Mehmet Karakaya were released on Sunday in a Kayseri-based investigation into the Gülen movement, against which the Turkish government...

President Erdoğan says he does not care about being called dictator

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he does not care about being portrayed as a dictator in the Western press in the wake...

US-backed forces say operation to retake Raqqa from ISIL has begun

An operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has begun, the US-backed Syrian Democratic...

Dozens detained in İstanbul, Adana during demonstrations in protest of HDP arrests

Turkish police have detained around 100 people in İstanbul and Adana provinces who took to the streets to protest the arrest of pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

Erdoğan adviser defends Internet blackout: We remember face to face conversations

Hamza Yerlikaya, one of the top advisers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, defended Internet blackouts that have been in effect in Turkey for since...

42 arrested, 192 detained over coup charges on Friday

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves hunted down and taken...

Turkish PM to EP president: Criticisms on Turkey are baseless, biased

In a phone conversation with European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Saturday amid an increasing crackdown on media and the opposition, Prime Minister Binali...

Released HDP deputies: ISIL attack targeted Kurdish politicians

Two Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who were detained and released on Friday argued that a car bomb attack in Diyarbakır on same day...

Turkey’s social media blackout expands after ISIL claims deadly Diyarbakır car bombing

A social media blackout imposed on popular social media websites by Turkish authorities following the detention of pro-Kurdish deputies early on Friday was expanded...

Turkey’s Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp block enters second day

Turkey will face another day of communication woes on Saturday as the blocking of social media and sharing websites that were shut down by...

3 Turkish soldiers with Operation Euphrates Shield wounded in ISIL attack

  Three soldiers, part of a Turkish military campaign in northern Syria against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were injured in...

Amid crackdown on opposition, Turkish lira hits record low

Following the rounding up of Kurdish deputies as part of a major crackdown on opposition in Turkey and a terrorist attack in Diyarbakır the...

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