23.2 C
Frankfurt am Main

CATEGORY

Top Stories

Trial of Zaman journalists resumes at İstanbul court

The trial of journalists from the now-closed Zaman daily resumed at the İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court on Thursday where the defendants are making...

Former Bursa governor, jailed over Gülen links, released on bail

Şahabettin Harput, a former Turkish governor of the western province of Bursa who was arrested in August 2017 due to alleged links to the...

EP’s Piri on June 24 elections: Turkey drifting away from Europe

Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament, said that in view of the June 24 election results, formal suspension of EU accession talks...

Jailed Zaman columnist Alkan seen with wife in first photo from prison

A photo of Ahmet Turan Alkan, a columnist from the now-closed Zaman daily, with his wife during an open visit at Silivri Prison, where...

Opposition alliance ends, İYİ Party says

İYİ (Good) Party spokesperson Aytun Çıray said on Wednesday the Nation Alliance among his party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Felicity Party...

US senator says further involvement in Syria could land Turkey in ‘quagmire’

Turkey could find itself in a quagmire if it deepens its involvement in Syria’s multi-sided civil war, a US senator said on Wednesday after...

Body of Turkey’s Olympic weightlifting champion exhumed in paternity suit

The body of world and Olympic champion Turkish weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu was exhumed Wednesday in Istanbul due to a paternity suit filed by Japanese...

Erdoğan assumes Cabinet duties and responsibilities with decree

Some duties and responsibilities of the Cabinet have been transferred to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a new state of emergency decree, known as...

CHP deputies begin collecting signatures for emergency convention

CHP chairmanship in question as deputies collect signatures for emergency convention Following a war of words on Tuesday between Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate...

Jailed purge victim dies of cerebral hemorrhage

Şafak Demir, one of the thousands of teachers removed from their posts by government decrees due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement...

Daughters of jailed police chief voice concerns about father’s safety in video message

Two daughters of Yurt Atayün, a former police chief who was incarcerated in the summer of 2014 for taking part in a corruption investigation,...

BHRC report raises concerns over trial of Zaman journalists in Turkey

The Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has published its interim trial observation report on the Zaman trial, in which 10 Turkish journalists...

Latest news