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[UPDATE] Siirt Co-mayor Bakırhan arrested, two other co-mayors detained

Siirt Co-mayor from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Tuncer Bakırhan, who was detained on Wednesday morning along with two other Kurdish mayors, was arrested...

16 people including Islamic scholar Gülen’s cousin detained in İzmir

Sixteen people, including one of the cousins of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, were detained in the western province of İzmir on Wednesday as...

[OPINION] How Erdoğan family controls finance and economy in Turkey (2)

By Abdullah Bozkurt The keystone in the massive dragnet set up by the corrupt president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to rob the nation’s wealth is Prime...

Court releases jailed HDP Co-chair Demirtaş’s lawyer on probation

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş's lawyer Levent Pişkin, who was detained on Monday after visiting the HDP co-chair in prison, was...

Syrian President Assad calls Turkey’s Erdoğan ‘megalomaniac’ and ‘sick’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a megalomaniac and a sick person when asked about Erdoğan's comments on...

Erdoğan names PM advisor Ökem as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel

Turkey has appointed a foreign policy adviser to the prime minister as ambassador to Israel, cementing the normalization of diplomatic relations after a partial,...

Turkey’s jailed intellectuals agree failed to see AKP’s dark side: We regret support we once gave Erdoğan

Fundamental rights are suspended; political opponents, intellectuals are jailed; media is censored. Same old same old in Turkey. The pervasive sense of fear, apprehension...

Erdoğan says Belgium a center for PKK militants and coup plotters

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday accused Belgium of being an important center for supporters of both the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and...

Turkey detains three Kurdish mayors

Turkish police early on Wednesday detained one of the co-mayors of the eastern province of Siirt and the co-mayors of Tunceli province as part...

Indictment: Turkish justice minister asked US attorney Bharara to release gold-trader Zarrab

Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ, who recently met with his counterpart, Loretta Lynch, in Washington and told her that the prosecution of Turkish-Iranian gold-trader...

[VİDEO] Turkey displays exasperation with EU’s ‘two-faced’ attitude by insulting Steinmeier

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Turkey is “fed up” with the European Union's “hypocrisy” in talks for its application to join the bloc,...

Report: 60 diplomatic passport holders, mostly soldiers, seeking asylum in Germany

According to a report in Deutsche Welle (DW) on Tuesday, most of the 60 Turkish diplomatic passport holders who are seeking asylum in Germany...

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