6.4 C
Frankfurt am Main

CATEGORY

Top Stories

Second ISIL rocket hits Kilis in one day

  Following the landing of a rocket in Kilis on Thursday that wounded six, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fired another...

Prosecutor demands 31 years for jailed journalist Baransu

A prosecutor on Thursday demanded the conviction of currently jailed journalist Mehmet Baransu and a sentence of up to 31 years’ imprisonment, in a...

CHP leader says Erdoğan’s UN speech only served to promote Gülen movement

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized a speech delivered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a UN meeting on Tuesday...

6 injured in rocket attack in Turkey’s Kilis province

Six people, all Syrian nationals, were injured after a rocket fired from northern Syria hit a local bazaar in Turkey’s southern border province of...

Turkey leads world again in Twitter censorship

A new transparency report released by Twitter has revealed that out of the 5,195 content removal requests received by the social networking website in...

Anadolu news agency backtracks on alleged Gülen-ISIL connection

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Thursday had to suddenly reverse course on a report it had previously posted alleging that books connected to...

Ex-President Gül says emergency rule should end as soon as possible

At a time when government officials are talking about extending the duration of a three-month-long emergency rule declared in the aftermath of a failed...

Turkey arrests journalist Mehmet Altan on coup charges, releases brother

After spending 12 days in detention, journalist and academic Mehmet Altan was arrested by an Istanbul court on Thursday, while his brother, Ahmet Altan,...

Turkish police detain 13 people over links to AKP deputy assassination plot

Police in Turkey’s Diyarbakır province on Wednesday detained 13 people, including municipal officials, on suspicion of attempting to assassinate Mehdi Eker, a former minister...

Turkish airstrikes kill 3 ISIL militants in northern Syria

  Turkiah military announced that it carried out six air strikes and killed three Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants on Wednesday. In...

Turkey postpones scheduled visit by UN rapporteur on torture

The Turkish government has postponed the scheduled visit of Juan E. Mendez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, to the county, which has been...

Galatasaray expels 5 including former footballers, governors over Gülen links

The disciplinary board of the Galatasaray football club on Wednesday expelled from membership three former players and two former governors who are currently under...

Latest news