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Germany: 35 Turkish diplomatic passport holders apply for asylum since July 15

German officials announced on Friday that since a failed coup in Turkey on July 15 that was followed a massive purge, 35 Turkish citizens...

US defense secretary announces agreement in principle on Turkey role in Mosul

Amid Turkey’s vocal frustration over its exclusion from an operation in Mosul that started this week, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said during...

Iran summons Turkish ambassador over ‘false statements’

  The Turkish ambassador in Tehran was summoned to the foreign ministry on Thursday over allegedly false statements on regional developments made by high-level Turkish...

Court releases man who attacked journalist Can Dündar

An İstanbul court on Friday decided to release, pending trial, Murat Şahin, who was arrested for attacking Turkish journalist Can Dündar with a gun...

HSYK: Suspended judicial members may return to job if they provide information

Deputy chairman of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) Mehmet Yılmaz has said judges and prosecutors who have been suspended due to...

Police officer suspended in post-coup purge in Turkey commits suicide

A police officer who was among the thousands of people who have been purged from state institutions due to their alleged links to the...

Turkey purge victims unable to find jobs, cannot leave country

“It’s a kind of civil death,” Kerem Altıparmak, a human rights lawyer and political science professor at Ankara University, told the Los Angeles Times...

Russia to halt Aleppo bombing 11 hours daily for four days

The United Nations announced on Thursday that Russia will stop bombing eastern Aleppo for 11 hours a day over the course of four days...

Police learn Turkish teacher already in prison during raid to detain him

Turkish police learned that a retired teacher whose house was raided for the second time in order to detain him had already been imprisoned...

US says coalition forces could not have succeeded in Syria without Turkey

Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Joseph Votel, said on Wednesday that the US-led coalition forces could not have achieved what...

Coup commission hears shadowy former police chief, minister

  Turkey’s parliamentary Coup Investigation Commission on Thursday hosted Mehmet Ağar, a former minister of interior and police chief whose name was associated with the...

Report: Syria threatens to shoot down Turkish jets

The Syrian army has threatened to shoot down Turkish jets that violate Syrian airspace, the Sputnik news website reported on Thursday. "All necessary measures will...

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