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73 detained in separate operations targeting alleged Gülen followers

Turkish police on Tuesday detained 73 people including active duty officers in separate operations targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, accused by the...

Jailed Kurdish leader denounces killing of PKK hostages, blames gov’t for botched rescue attempt

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has denounced the killing of 13 Turkish nationals held hostage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blaming the...

Erdoğan brags about the crowd in packed AKP convention amid pandemic

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bragged about how packed the crowd was in an indoor meeting of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) as...

Turkey’s main opposition parties put blame on AKP for botched operation in Iraq

Turkey’s two largest opposition parties put the blame on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for the failure of an operation in northern...

Public tender valued at $2.9 million won by AKP-linked company

A public tender for construction work on a sewage system in the northeastern Turkish province of Artvin valued at TL 20,566,000 ($2.9 million) has...

Man staunchly opposed to AKP discovers he was enrolled in party years ago

A man who is standing trial on charges of insulting Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media has discovered that he was registered...

Women as spacefarers: Turkey’s Erdoğan has doubts about it

Remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressing doubt about women’s competence as spacefarers when unveiling the country’s national space program on Feb. 9...

Sex crime convictions increased 10-fold in Turkey in 10 years: TurkStat

The number of people convicted of sex crimes in Turkey saw a sharp increase from 562 in 2009 to 5,800 in 2019, a 10-fold...

Turkish Parliament speaker rejects request for inquiry into torture allegations

Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Şentop returned a letter to human rights activist and lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, claiming that it contained “vulgar...

Social media platforms pose threat to Turkey’s sovereignty: AKP spokesman

Spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ömer Çelik called social media companies the source of digital fascism and digital dictatorship, saying...

Turkey restores parliamentary membership of opposition lawmaker

The Turkish Parliament on Thursday reinstated the parliamentary membership of Enis Berberoğlu, a politician from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) who was...

200,000 doses of ‘missing’ COVID-19 vaccine allegedly received by people close to AKP

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Murat Emir has claimed that nearly 200,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine received from China are "missing"...

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