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Union chairman attacked as pressure mounts on naysayers

Turkish Bureau Union (Türk Büro Sen) Chairman Fahrettin Yokuş, who called on people to say "no" in an April 16 referendum on a presidential...

Doğan group fires TV presenter who says ‘no’ to new charter

Turkey's Doğan Media Group has fired İrfan Değirmenci, a presenter on Kanal D, because he declared on social media that he would vote "no"...

[UPDATE] 2 more Turkish soldiers die in northern Syria

One Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in the al-Bab area of northern Syria...

Police wait at hospital to detain cancer patient

An anonymous Twitter account aiming to share human rights violations in Turkey announced on Saturday that police in Ankara were waiting at a hospital...

[UPDATE] ISIL gunman arrested for attack on Reina nightclub

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the prime suspect in a Jan. 1 massacre at the Reina nightclub in İstanbul who has been under investigation since his capture...

Hotel cuts power to prevent talk by expelled opposition deputy

A former candidate for leadership of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Meral Akşener, was forced to address party members in the dark when...

Turkey’s FM: Not a single journalist imprisoned for reporting

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has told Spanish media that not a single journalist is imprisoned in Turkey due to their reporting and that...

Erdoğan says will of God, the nation to be realized in new system

Speaking in support of a switch to an executive presidential system to be voted in a referendum on April 16, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Dismissed professor Kaboğlu says purge is a dishonor to academics

İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of constitutional law and one of 330 academics dismissed in a recent government decree, has said ongoing purges in Turkey are...

CHP deputy claims Erdoğan said ISIL wouldn’t harm Turkey

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Dursun Çiçek has claimed that in light of intelligence that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

Court releases officer who accompanied army chief to Kardak islets

A court in Ankara early on Saturday released a military officer who was likely to become Turkey’s first female general but was detained due...

Bedridden mother dies after daughter arrested over links to Gülen movement

Eighty-six-year-old bedridden Fahriye Asrak died on Thursday after her daughter Nejla Akdağ was arrested by a court over links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

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