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Former minister Bağış: Journalist in leaked conversation could have Gülen links

Turkey’s former minister of European Affairs, Egemen Bağış, claimed that the other party of a phone conversation in which Bağış mocked the Quran, journalist Metehan...

Reina gunman received order from ISIL head in Syria over Telegram

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the prime suspect in a Jan. 1 massacre at the Reina nightclub in İstanbul who is currently under interrogation, has said he...

Emails of Russian envoy’s assassin deleted after murder

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has discovered that emails belonging to the assassin of Russia's ambassador to Turkey were deleted two-and-a-half hours after...

[UPDATE] HDP’s Hüda Kaya released from police custody

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya has been released from detention, joining colleague deputy Adana Meral Danış Beştaş, who was freed on...

British PM’s Turkey visit to focus on trade, security amid post-coup human rights violations

British Prime Minister Theresa May started a one-day visit to Turkey on Saturday focusing on trade and security issues despite a crackdown by Turkey's...

Erdoğan says he will support law allowing new construction on Bosporus

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday that he is in favor of proposed legislation for future construction on the shores of İstanbul’s Bosphorus...

Turkey loses last investment grade rating after Fitch cut

Fitch has cut Turkey's sovereign rating to junk level, becoming the last major rating agency to put the country under investment-level territory. Fitch’s decision came...

Deputy: CHP member shot during referendum campaign

M.D., a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) youth branch was shot on Thursday night in İstanbul while campaigning against a constitutional package...

S&P revises Turkey outlook down to negative in surprise move

In the midst of expectations of a Fitch downgrade of Turkey’s rating, another major rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P), revised its outlook on...

Reina nightclub partner says no state official called to offer support

One of the partners of İstanbul’s Reina nightclub has said that no government official ever called them to show support after an attack on...

Greece says courts independent as Turkey angered by refusal to extradite soldiers

After Turkey expressed anger over a verdict from the Greek Supreme Court on Thursday denying the extradition of eight servicemen who were allegedly involved...

[UPDATE] Kurdish co-mayors of Uludere dismissed after detention

The co-mayors of Şırnak's Uludere district, Zeynep Üren and Yunus Ürek from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were dismissed from their posts on...

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