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İstanbul art gallery guests attacked by locals for drinking wine at opening

Three residents of İstanbul’s Beyoğlu district attacked people who had gathered in front of an art gallery for the opening of an exhibition on...

60 businessmen, foundation members detained in Bolu over Gülen links

Sixty businessmen and members of foundations affiliated with the faith-based Gülen movement were detained in the Black Sea province of Bolu on Sunday due...

1 soldier killed, 5 injured in clashes with PKK in Hakkari

One soldier was killed and five others were injured when Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists on Sunday fired mortars at Turkish military members near...

Turkey detains another 15 academics over use of ByLock app

Fifteen academics who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, were detained on Saturday as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

2 more Gülen relatives detained in Sakarya witch-hunt

Sakarya police on Saturday detained two more relatives of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen on charges of alleged membership in a terrorist organization. The Turkish government...

Turkish gov’t seizes furniture chain Alfemo over alleged Gülen links

A panel of trustees on Saturday was appointed to furniture chain Alfemo due to alleged ties to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

Report: Turkey detains 50 Nigerian students in Istanbul

More than 50 Nigerian students were detained on Friday in Turkey, allegedly on the orders of the government, the Thisday news website has reported. According...

ByLock app users to be tried on terrorism charges

The pro-government media in Turkey reported on Saturday that individuals arrested for using a smart phone application named ByLock in the wake of a...

146 arrested, 233 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 being hunted down and...

Businessman files complaint against Moody’s for downgrading Turkey’s rating

Abdulmutalip Çiçek, a businessman from Turkey’s southern province of Gaziantep, on Friday filed a complaint against international credit rating firm Moody’s after the firm...

3 Kurdish mayors in Şanlıurfa need governor’s approval in decision making

  As part of the trend of appointing trustees to predominantly Kurdish towns in Turkey’s Southeast, the governor of Şanlıurfa is now requiring three local...

Greece: Turkish president’s remarks on islands ‘dangerous’ to relations

The office of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of endangering relations between the two neighboring countries by...

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