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[ANALYSIS] How Gezi Park shaped Turkish politics and media

May 27 of this year marked the fifth anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, which on the one hand pushed then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

TRT hits back at İnce, claims sufficient airtime allocated to his campaign

Turkey’s state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), which is being criticized by Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce as well as other...

Video footage shows elderly woman crushed to death by military vehicle in Diyarbakır

Recently released security camera footage shows how an 85-year-old woman was crushed to death by an armored military vehicle on a road closed to...

Presidential candidate Demirtaş’s lawyers apply to Constitutional Court for release

Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Tuesday applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court for his release,...

Detention warrants issued for 41 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 41 active duty and former military personnel as part of an investigation...

Macron lambasts removal of Le Point’s Erdoğan posters

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday strongly criticized the removal of cover posters of Le Point magazine from kiosk billboards by a group of...

Israeli parliament speaker pulls vote on recognizing Armenian genocide from agenda

Israeli Parliament Speaker Yuli Edelstein has pulled from the agenda a vote to be held on Tuesday recognizing events in Ottoman era Turkey as...

CHP demands to examine request sent to US for extradition of Gülen

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has demanded the Justice Ministry make available files that were sent to the United States for the requested...

545 detained in one week over alleged Gülen links

A total of 545 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Turkish Interior...

[UPDATED] Prosecutor launches investigation into Atatürkist organization over ‘coup tweet’

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday launched an investigation into the Atatürkist Thought Organization (ADD) over a tweet shared yesterday on the...

American pastor standing trial in Turkey ‘a totally innocent man,’ says Trump

An American pastor standing trial in Turkey on allegations of aiding terrorist groups is “a totally innocent man,” US President Donald Trump said on...

Editor briefly detained due to article titled ‘We can stop the dictatorship’

Ali Ergin Demirhan, an editor at the critical sendika.org news website, was briefly detained on Monday due to an article on the site in...

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