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US defense bill bars Turkey’s F-35 purchase over Pastor Brunson detention

A US Senate committee passed its version of a $716 billion defense policy bill on Thursday that includes a measure to prevent Turkey from...

OSCE opens Election Observation Mission ahead of Turkey’s June polls

The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened its election observation mission in Turkey on Thursday for snap presidential and parliamentary...

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

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

Turkish Foreign Ministry condemns Greece for granting asylum to Turkish soldier

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday condemning Greece’s decision to grant asylum to Turkish soldier Süleyman Özkaynakçı, who has been accused of...

Election authority prevents candidacy of CHP official convicted of insulting Erdoğan

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has found inappropriate the parliamentary candidacy of a Republican People’s Party (CHP) official from Edirne on the grounds that...

AKP promises in its election manifesto to keep state of emergency in effect

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which released its election manifesto for the June 24 general election on Thursday, has promised to...

CHP’s İnce announces visit to Demirtaş’s family during dinner with EU ambassadors

Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce had dinner with European Union ambassadors in Ankara on Wednesday evening, telling them he would visit...

Turkey’s finance leaders to meet with foreign investors amid lira’s free fall

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek and Turkish Central Bank Governor Murat Çetinkaya will meet with fund managers and investors on May 28 in İstanbul...

Erdoğan says US has lost almost all credibility

A decision by the US to move its embassy to Jerusalem has no meaning since the US has lost almost all credibility in the...

Controversial professor warns of civil war in event AKP does not win elections

Ahmet Maranki, who introduces himself as a professor of alternative medicine, has implied that a civil war could break out in Turkey if the...

Detention warrants issued for 16 military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 16 active duty and former military personnel and three others allegedly linked...

Turkey’s central bank increases interest rates as Turkish lira is in free fall

Following the Turkish lira’s record value loss against the US dollar, policy committee members of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) held...

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