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AKP deputy says peace signatory academics, journalists do not even deserve to live

Şahap Kavcıoğlu, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said academics, journalists and politicians who signed a peace declaration in 2016...

European rights court has rejected 25,000 petitions from purge victims

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected a total of 25,000 applications submitted by Turks who are victims of an immense purge...

Detention warrants issued for 48 more people over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 48 people across 21 provinces due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

Progressive Lawyers Association president arrested by court on terrorism charges

Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) President Selçuk Kozağaçlı, who was detained on Nov. 8 in İstanbul, has been arrested by a court on charges of...

Erdoğan: Turkey and Russia discussing joint steps in Afrin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday said Turkey is discussing with Russia possible steps in the Afrin region of Syria, which is controlled...

Turkish court rules Altan brothers, Ilıcak, others to remain in jail

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Fevzi Yazıcı, who were arrested in September 2016 on...

Erdoğan says Trump, Putin are fooling the world on Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday reacted to recent remarks made by US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that no...

Turkish lieutenant colonel recants testimony, says drugged and tortured

Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide-de-camp of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, on Monday recanted his previous testimony during a hearing at the...

Turkish police detain 10 over social media messages

Ten people were detained on Monday morning in Ankara as part of an operation into social media launched by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office,...

586 detained in one week over Gülen links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 586 people have been detained in one week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement,...

[OPINION] Turkish probe revealed Erdoğan sent arms to jihadists in Syria

by Abdullah Bozkurt The cover-up in the transfer of heavy arms to terror organizations in Syria by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...

Military officer candidate asked about Quran and Gezi protests

Amid criticism that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a failed coup attempt as an opportunity to turn NATO's second biggest army into an Islamist...

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