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2,500 schools confiscated, 30,000 teachers dismissed over Gülen links

Turkish Education Ministry Undersecretary Yusuf Tekin on Sunday said they have completed a purge of Gülen movement members and institutions in his ministry, the...

Turkish minister: Putin got 76 pct, Erdoğan should get over 75 pct

Turkey's Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba said that in the 2019 presidential election, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should get no...

Turkish prosecutor accuses Gülen movement of spreading Christianity

An indictment that demands 35 years in prison for American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016, accuses the...

Police detain more students at Boğaziçi University

Following a statement by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday that the government will clean “communist and terrorist students” out of universities, Turkish...

RSF calls on EU leaders to insist on press freedom at summit with Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written a letter to European Union leaders in advance of an EU-Turkey summit in Varna, Bulgaria, on March 26...

Erdoğan vows to clean communist youths out of universities

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday lambasted students at Bogaziçi University who protested other students for commemorating soldiers killed in a military operation...

Turkey says missile defense systems from US, Eurosam still a goal

Turkey is continuing to hold talks with the Franco-Italian Eurosam consortium and the United States to buy missile defense systems, Ankara's foreign ministry spokesman...

EP members ask EU leaders to press Erdoğan on rights issues in Turkey during summit

Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, has initiated an open letter with...

Detention warrants issued for 100 over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 100 people including purged police officers and executives of the Aksiyon-İş union...

CPJ calls on EU officials to raise press freedom with Erdoğan

In a letter to the European Union's top officials, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday asked the union to call for the...

OSCE warns about shrinking space for online expression in Turkey

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Thursday expressed concern about a provision that was adopted by the Turkish Parliament on...

Doğan says it was his own decision to sell media group to Demirören

One day after news broke about the sale of Turkey’s largest media group, the Doğan Media Group, to the Demirören Group, businessman and honorary...

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