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64 detained in Kayseri-based witch-hunt against Gülen movement

Sixty-four people out of 78 for whom detention warrants were issued by the Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office over their alleged links to the...

Pro gov’t TV claims Gülen sends a secret signal by drinking tea

During a TV program recently aired on the pro-government Haber-Turk station, Sabah daily columnists Ferhat Ünlü and Metehan Demir and TV anchor Didem Arslan...

Police officer commits suicide after being suspended in latest gov’t purge

A Mersin-based police officer, known by initials A.T., committed suicide at a park a day after he was suspended over alleged links to the...

Turkey’s Interior Ministry suspends another 37 over alleged Gülen links

Thirty-seven Interior Ministry personnel were on Tuesday suspended from their positions over alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding...

Council of Europe warns against hate speech by senior state officials in Turkey

  The human rights body of the Council of Europe, the Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), issued a report on Wednesday raising concerns about...

Ministry to be able to hold tenders outside Public Procurement Law

Turkey's Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communications will be able to hold some tenders without the need to abide by the Public Procurement Law,...

Russian President Putin to visit Turkey on Oct. 10

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a visit to Turkey to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and to speak at the World Energy...

Novelist Elif Shafak: Turks have never been so scared of words

“Jailing peace activists and writers is not new in our country,” wrote the linguist and author Necmiye Alpay this month, in a letter to...

Altan’s lawyer slams pro-gov’t newspapers over ‘manipulative’ report

Lawyer Ergin Cinmen, who represents jailed journalist and author Ahmet Altan, has criticized four pro-government newspapers, all of which ran stories on Monday showing...

RedHack leaks reveal rise of Turkey’s pro-government Twitter trolls

An article published by Internet newspaper The Daily Dot on Friday shows how the leaked emails of Berat Albayrak, the Turkish energy minister and...

Turkey’s annualized inflation at 7.28 percent in September

Official figures from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) show that the annualized rate of inflation in Turkey dropped to 7.28 percent in September from...

PKK attack kills 2 soldiers in Hakkari

Two soldiers were killed and one was wounded in a roadside bomb attack perpetrated by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in southeastern Hakkari province on...

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