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70 HDP members, administrators detained in İstanbul

Seventy members and administrators from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in İstanbul on Monday following raids on their homes. After İstanbul prosecutors...

Prominent news anchor Portakal says joining ‘no’ camp in referendum

Prominent news anchor Fatih Portakal, who presents Fox TV news in Turkey, announced on Sunday that he is joining people who are voting "no"...

Program director resigns after Doğan group fires TV presenter over ‘no’ vote in referendum

Ertuğrul Albayrak, a program director at Doğan Media Group's Kanal D TV, which recently fired presenter İrfan Değirmenci because he declared on social media...

Vote and Beyond will not enlist independent volunteers in referendum

Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond), an association that has acted as a monitor to ensure an accurate counting of the votes in Turkey...

Mother with infant jailed while trying to visit imprisoned husband

Ayfer Yavuz, whose husband was imprisoned as part of a government witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt last July,...

ISIL gunman asks son to become suicide bomber

Abdulkadir Masharipov, who was arrested on Saturday as the prime suspect in a Jan. 1 massacre at the Reina nightclub in İstanbul, asks his...

Purged academic gives lesson under falling snow

Professor Yüksel Taşkın, one of 330 academics recently dismissed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), gave a lesson in the midst of...

Another magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolts Turkey’s northern Aegean coast 

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 jolted Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Sunday, the most recent in a string of tremors hitting...

Erdoğan says naysayers in referendum side with July 15 coup plotters

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said those who will vote against a constitutional reform package which among other things brings an executive presidency to...

One more soldier killed, 3 others injured in ISIL attack in Syria

One more Turkish soldier was killed and three others were injured in an attack perpetrated by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...

Curfew imposed on 3 districts in Mardin

The Mardin Governor's Office on Sunday declared a curfew in three districts of the province as part of the fight against terrorism. A statement released...

Aided by colleagues, abusive policeman seeks ways to dodge charges

With police brutality already proven to have increased in recent protests across the country, Ali Genç, an abusive officer who was involved in a...

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