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Turkish police detain 40 foreigners in İstanbul over links to ISIL

Turkish police detained 40 foreign nationals over their suspected links to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in raids in...

6 civil servants jailed in Antalya over alleged Gülen links

  Six of 36 civil servants who were recently detained in the Alanya district of southern Antalya province as part of an ongoing witch-hunt against...

All protest activities over environmental woes banned in Artvin

  In a move apparently aimed at preventing environmental protests over the building of a mine complex in an ecologically pristine area in Cerattepe, the...

Slain prosecutor’s daughter: My father was not with Gülen movement

The daughter of former Bursa public prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit, who allegedly committed suicide in a prison bathroom on Friday morning after he was put...

Netherlands poised to cancel status of Islamic university over rector’s discriminatory remarks

Dutch Education Minister Jet Bussemaker announced that there is a parliamentary debate over the Islamic University of Rotterdam for cancellation of the “university status”...

Gülen calls Turkey’s crackdown on dissidents ‘dark pages’ in history

In videotaped remarks to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen denounced the Turkish government's crackdown on dissidents, including...

Turkish troops, PKK militants killed in clashes in Southeast

Three Turkish soldiers and four terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members were killed in clashes on Saturday as the military launched a major operation...

As Turkey drops opposition, Israel sends representation to NATO

After overcoming years of resistance from Turkey, Israeli diplomat Ambassador Aharon Leshno-Yaar began work on Friday as Israel’s representative at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Israel,...

FM encounter in Venezuela hints at thaw between Turkey, Egypt

After several years of strained relations, a brief but significant encounter between Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, in...

Citing US presence, groups withdraw from Turkey-led rebel coalition against ISIL

Several groups have withdrawn from the rebel alliance led by Turkey as part of the Euphrates Shield operation to push back the terrorist Islamic...

Amnesty International researcher criticizes witch-hunt in Turkey

Amnesty International’s Turkey researcher has leveled sharp criticism against Turkey over ongoing purges that have followed a failed coup attempt in July and said...

Erdoğan to speak at UN General Assembly in New York

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will deliver a speech to world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, the...

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