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Minister says new purge under way for PKK supporters in public sector

Minister of Labor and Social Security Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has announced that the Turkish government is making preparations for an operation to cleanse alleged supporters...

Turkey arrests 27 more businessmen in coup investigation

A total of 27 businessmen were arrested on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a failed coup attempt in July that the...

Detention warrants issued for 85 including generals, officers

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 85 people including six generals and 43 lower-ranking officers on Thursday as part of witch-hunt...

NATO chief to visit Turkey on Thursday

  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Ankara on Thursday to hold talks with Turkish officials, in his first trip to Turkey since a failed...

2 admirals, 1 commander detained over alleged links to Gülen

Turkish police have detained two admirals who are on the government’s black list and a naval commander and his daughter for helping the two...

Ottoman march accompanies demolition of wall built by İpek family

A wall and some arbors that were allegedly illegally erected by Melek İpek, mother of Akın İpek, a businessman in a self-imposed exile in...

Russia concerned about progress of Turkish troops in Syria

Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about the movement of Turkish troops and Syrian opposition forces deeper into Syria's territory and warned that it could...

Polling company owner Sencar released from detention

Political observer and owner of the MetroPoll polling company Professor Özer Sencar was released from custody after he was detained in a police raid...

Ministry: DW footage taken because interview questions not cleared in advance

  A crisis that erupted on Monday evening when officials from Turkey’s Youth and Sports Ministry seized video footage of an interview German broadcaster Deutsche...

Anti-Gülen witch-hunt extends to nationalists as 3 Yeniçağ columnists detained

Three columnists from the nationalist Yeniçağ daily were detained early on Wednesday as part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, the daily...

Erdoğan confesses anti-Gülen witch-hunt has gone off track

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged that a witch-hunt he launched against the faith-based Gülen movement has gotten out of control and that people...

FSA takes control of 6 more villages from ISIL

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), supported by the Turkish military and allied forces, took control of six more villages from the Islamic State in...

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