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Officers who ‘delayed’ helicopter operation against Erdoğan reinstated

The officers and team who claimed to have delayed a helicopter takeoff for an operation against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a July 15...

AI launches campaign to show solidarity with jailed journalists in Turkey

Amnesty International launched a campaign on Twitter on Thursday to support jailed journalists in Turkey, calling for their release, with the hashtag #FreeTurkeyMedia. AI created...

Economy minister protests detention of Halkbank’s Atilla in US

Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci on Thursday reacted to the detention of Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla in the US on charges...

Turkey says not satisfied by US statement on phone call to prime coup suspect

Turkish authorities have voiced dissatisfaction with a statement by the US Embassy in Turkey regarding a phone call to Adil Öksüz six days after...

Prosecutor demands arrest of police officer who shot Kurkut to death

A Diyarbakır prosecutor has requested the arrest of a police officer who shot a young man, Kemal Kurkut, to death during Nevruz celebrations in...

Turkish officials, Tillerson discuss ISIL, Gülen extradition in Ankara

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish officials on Thursday discussed ways to coordinate the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and...

[UPDATE] Kurdish politicians including HDP co-chair to go on hunger strike in protest of prison conditions

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Hakkari deputy Abdullah Zeydan and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel will go on...

[UPDATE] Professor Özaydın released pending trial under foreign travel prohibition

Prominent professor and social scientist İştar Gözaydın, who has been behind bars since late December on terror charges, was released pending trial by a...

American pastor jailed over Gülen links asks Trump to fight for his release

An American pastor who has been jailed on bogus terrorism charges in Turkey for more than five months has asked US President Donald Trump...

Turkey ends Operation Euphrates Shield in Syria

Turkey announced on Wednesday that it had terminated Operation Euphrates Shield, which was launched last August against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

US lifts restrictions for diplomatic dependents at İstanbul consulate, reiterates previous warnings

The US State Department updated a travel warning to its citizens on Tuesday that terminated an October decision which directed family members of employees...

Ex-Pentagon advisor says Turkey is heading towards civil conflict, if not civil war

Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon advisor, said on Wednesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's plans...

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