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4 more journalists jailed in Turkey

Journalists Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Atilla Taş, Mutlu Gölgeçen and Murat Aksoy were jailed in İstanbul on Saturday as part of an investigation into the...

80-year-old man with cane handcuffed, detained over Gülen links

An 80-year-old Turkish man with walking and speaking difficulties was handcuffed and detained by Turkish police on Sept. 1 over suspected links to the Gülen movement,...

Erdoğan: President is head of judiciary, legislature and executive

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, when departing for the G-20 Summit in China from İstanbul Atatürk Airport on Friday, told reporters that the president is...

Turkey seizes all assets of Fethullah Gülen, 64 others

An Ankara court on Friday ordered the seizure of all assets of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and 64 others as part of...

AKP government cancels 115 more press cards

Turkish authorities have cancelled the permanent press cards of 115 journalists for their alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state run Anadolu news...

Obama: Turkey has gone through political and civil earthquake

In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, US President Barack Obama, when questioned about any concerns he might have about Turkey’s stability following...

Pro-peace academics, atheist among 2,346 dismissed from universities

  Academics who signed a pro-peace declaration earlier this year and an atheist associate professor are among 2,346 academics who were removed from their posts...

[News Analysis] The gov’t in Turkey is committing genocide

News Analysis / TM President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is continuing to carry out a witch-hunt, launched in the aftermath of a July 15 coup attempt,...

US ambassador, CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu discuss decrees

John R. Bass, US ambassador to Turkey, visited Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Friday to express hope for his wellbeing after...

194 arrested, 264 detained on Thursday

At least 194 people were arrested while 264 others were detained over the past 24 hours as part of a witch-hunt against the Gülen...

51,000 dismissed from Turkey’s state bodies under new gov’t decree

A recent decree issued under post-coup-attempt emergency rules has led to the dismissal of 50,589 civil servants and banned their employment at any state...

İstanbul ecumenical patriarch condemns propaganda story in pro-gov’t daily

  Ecumenical Patriarch of İstanbul Bartholomew I has condemned a story in the pro-government Akşam daily claiming Bartholomew had played a role in masterminding the...

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