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[VIDEO] Turkish interior minister asks citizens to denounce PKK sympathizers

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Tuesday called on Turkish citizens to inform the authorities about people who are sympathizers of the outlawed Kurdistan...

Turkey asks imams abroad to profile Gülen-linked expatriates

A document dated Sept. 20, 2016 shows that Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) asked Turkish missions and religious representatives abroad to profile Gülen...

Turkey seeks civilian evacuation from Aleppo amid protests at home

  Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has been making phone calls to his Qatari and Russian counterparts to provide evacuation for residents of Aleppo, while a...

[VIDEO] Man attacking Fazıl Say concert with machete detained

A man in Turkey’s Western province of İzmir showed up with a machete in his hand during famous pianist Fazıl Say’s concert in the...

EU will not open new chapters with Turkey

As several European Union institutions and politicians continue to express concern over an ongoing purge in Turkey following an attempted coup on July 15, ...

Academic suspended over call for Alevi massacre

Abdülkadir Şen, an academic at Alparslan University in Muş province, was suspended on Tuesday after posting social media messages that called for the massacre...

Another pro-Kurdish HDP deputy, Çağlar Demirel, arrested

Amid a major crackdown against Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), another deputy of the third largest party in Parliament, Çağlar Demirel, was arrested...

35 including 21 academics detained over Gülen links

Thirty-five people including 21 academics were detained on Tuesday as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, which the government claims to have...

Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy released and detained again on same day

Besime Konca, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who was detained on Monday night and released on probation on Tuesday morning,...

10 including HDP Halfeti district co-mayor arrested on terror charges

Ten people including Mustafa Bayram, the co-mayor of the Halfeti district in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, were arrested on Tuesday on charges of...

Interior Ministry: 568 detained in 28 provinces in relation to İstanbul bombings

Turkey's Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Wednesday that a total of 568 people were detained across 28 provinces Dec.12-13 as part of...

Teacher making students pose with nooses sparks outrage

A primary school teacher in İstanbul’s Başakşehir district attracted widespread criticism when he shared photos of his students on social media in which they...

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