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German state minister says persecuted Turks can apply for asylum in Germany

German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth has said that his country would willingly accept asylum requests from Turks who are subject to...

Kılıçdaroğlu: HDP deputies cannot refuse to testify to prosecutor

Fine-tuning his initial remarks on Kurdish deputies who were recently put under arrest, underlining that those who arrive in Parliament via elections should leave...

Erdoğan files complaint against CHP leader, party council members over insult charges

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed criminal complaints against main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and members of the CHP Party...

European diplomats, NGOs attend HDP parliamentary meeting in show of support

The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentary group meeting, which convened on Tuesday for the first time since the arrest of 10 deputies from...

Former İstanbul police chief jailed over alleged links to Gülen released

Former İstanbul Police Chief Hüseyin Çapkın, who was jailed in September due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, inspired by US-based Turkish...

Top US general’s Ankara visit indicates no immediate plans of seizing Raqqa from ISIL

Head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford played down the idea of seizing the Islamic State in Iraq and the...

Austria, Balkan states to discuss aftermath of possible EU-Turkey migrant deal collapse

Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said on Monday that his government would meet with its Balkan neighbors to discuss what action they might...

US Attorney Bharara now charges Turkish gold trader Zarrab’s brother in Iran sanctions case

Mohammad Zarrab, the brother of Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who was arrested in the United States in March on charges of evading US sanctions on Iran,...

Turkish Deputy PM says gov’t confiscated 527 companies since coup attempt

A total of 527 companies have been transferred to the state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) since a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey,...

Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy’s son tortured in custody, handcuffed to hospital bed

Muhammed Cihad Kaya, the son of a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy who was detained by police at a press meeting in İstanbul,...

[OPINION] Erdoğan props up his enlisted ally Hizbullah in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt A crackdown on the legitimate Kurdish political movement in Turkey by its autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while provoking militant faction the...

Turkish EU Affairs Minister: Gülen movement is worse than Nazis

Turkey’s European Union Minister Ömer Çelik on Monday portrayed the Gülen movement as being worse than the Nazis, saying the Nazis were like apprentices...

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