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[VIDEO] NBA star Kanter says he fled Indonesia after intelligence pursued him

NBA Oklahoma City Thunder player Enes Kanter, who was briefly detained on Saturday at an airport in Romania upon a request from the Turkish...

CNN Türk anchor taken off air after remark about ‘short’ Erdoğan-Trump meeting

CNN Türk presenter Nevşin Mengü was taken off the air by station management on Monday after remarks she made about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's...

[VIDEO] Man survives lynching attempt after attacking Atatürk statue in Sakarya

A man who tried to set fire to a statue of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and attacked it with an axe was saved...

[UPDATE] Turkish Foreign Ministry lodges official complaint with US ambassador over violence in DC

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned US Ambassador to Ankara John Bass to lodge a formal protest over what it claimed were “lapses of...

Trial of 221 suspects including generals accused of coup plotting begins in Ankara

A total of 221 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, accused of being among the ringleaders of an attempted coup on July...

Mother, wife of Özakça detained after starting hunger strike

Sultan Özakça and Esra Özakça, the mother and wife of Semih Özakça, a fired educator who was detained early on Monday morning along with...

966 detained in one week in witch-hunt targeting Gülen movement

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 966 people have been detained in the past week as part of an...

Popular İstanbul nightclub Reina demolished after New Year’s tragedy

One of the most popular nightclubs in İstanbul, Reina, was demolished by municipal workers on Monday almost five months after it became the scene...

US secretary of state says Turkish violence in DC ‘simply unacceptable’

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday denounced a violent clash in Washington last week involving Turkish security personnel and protesters, as the...

Turkey detains 2 more academics, teacher before they manage to escape to Greece

Two academics and a teacher who were earlier dismissed from their jobs under a post-coup emergency degree were detained by a gendarmerie team in...

New Amnesty report says purged public sector workers denied a future in Turkey

The dismissal of more than 100,000 Turkish public sector workers is arbitrary and has had a catastrophic impact on their lives and livelihoods, a...

[UPDATE] Two expelled educators detained on 75th day of their hunger strike

Turkish police have raided the houses belonging to Semih Özakça and Nuriye Gülmen, educators who went on a hunger strike after they were fired...

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