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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...

Court decides to merge trials of 2 journalists, 1 deputy over MİT truck story

An İstanbul court on Wednesday decided to merge the trial of journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül with that of Republican People’s Party (CHP)...

Man shot during attempted attack on Israeli Embassy in Ankara

An assailant wielding a knife was shot and wounded by security guards as he attempted to storm the Israeli Embassy building in Ankara on...

Turkish military defectors say they are secular Kemalists, fear torture if extradited

Eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July have said they are secular Kemalists and have...

Altan brothers asked about Sledgehammer coup plot during police interrogation

On the 11th day of their detention, journalist and author brothers Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan were asked about a suspected military coup plan...

Another 76 detained in Turkey over use of ‘suspected’ mobile app

Seventy-six public officials who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, have been detained as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

Mavi Marmara flotilla organizer: Turkey in weak position with Israel

Bülent Yıldırım, president of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in...

AKP deputy: Naive to think ‘FETÖ’ has not infiltrated our party

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Sakarya deputy Ayhan Sefer Üstün said on Tuesday that there should also be a cleansing within the...

Erdoğan expands his witch-hunt against Gülen movement to UN General Assembly

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan expanded his witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement to the United Nations General Assembly as he called on world leaders...

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