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Turkish Journalists’ Association not to give Press Freedom Prize in 2017

The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC), which has been giving the Press Freedom Prize since 1989 on July 24, Press Freedom Day, has announced that...

July 15 coup attempt to be taught as a lesson in Turkish schools

Turkey’s Education Minister İsmet Yilmaz has announced that a July 15, 2016 coup attempt is going to be part of the new curriculum in...

Erdoğan: If Turkey did not have rule of law, traitors would be lying in random pits

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday claimed that if Turkey did not adhere to the rule of law, tens of thousands of "traitors" would...

Kılıçdaroğlu asks who ordered intelligence, army heads not to testify to coup commission

Addressing Parliament during a special session to commemorate the first anniversary of a botched coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Erdoğan slams release of Kurdish politician from prison

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized the release of veteran Kurdish politician and former mayor of Mardin Ahmet Türk from prison due to...

Erdoğan to visit Qatar soon, FM Çavuşoğlu says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will soon visit Qatar to discuss efforts to resolve an ongoing crisis in the Gulf, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu...

Turkey bars German MPs from visiting NATO base in Konya

Turkey has prohibited German parliamentarians from visiting their soldiers serving in a NATO mission on an airbase near Konya. According to dpa international, Wolfgang Hellmich,...

Another woman who just gave birth to be detained by police in Turkey

A group of police officers have been waiting outside the private Hizmet Hospital in İstanbul's Bahçelievler district in order to detain a woman who...

7,348 more dismissed under draconian new gov’t decree

A total of 7,348 people, including 302 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by a new government decree, known as a KHK, that...

Academic Çalışkan put under house arrest

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been...

Turkish Armenian intellectual escapes from prison: The bird has flown

Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish intellectual of Armenian origin who was imprisoned on Dec. 2, 2014 for “construction infractions,” announced in a tweet on Friday...

Report: Azeri SOCAR secretly bought tankers from Erdoğan’s son

The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) bought five oil tankers belonging to the family of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan using offshore...

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