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[UPDATE] After Greece’s refusal to extradite, Turkey issues arrest warrants for 8 soldiers

Hours after the Greek Supreme Court handed down its verdict on an extradition request for eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece after a...

Report: NATO sources suspect Turkey coup staged by president as pretext for purge

An attempted coup in Turkey on July 15, 2016, is believed by NATO sources to have been staged by the president of Turkey himself,...

Prosecutor allegedly tells wife of detainee to consider her husband dead

Cumhuriyet daily columnist Aydın Engin wrote on Wednesday that the wife of a detainee sent him a letter claiming that a prosecutor told her...

Detention warrants issued for 52 purged Supreme Court of Appeals members

As part of an ongoing purge in Turkey, detention warrants were issued on Wednesday for 52 dismissed members of the country’s Supreme Court of...

Turkey seizes all assets of businessman Akın İpek, mother Melek İpek

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the seizure of all assets of Turkish businessman Akın İpek and his mother, Melek İpek, over their alleged...

Former Turkish officer at NATO: Coup attempt was never meant to succeed

A former Turkish officer who served at NATO headquarters in Brussels but was sacked and recalled to Turkey as part of an investigation into...

Prosecutor seeks 15 years for academics over Gülen links

An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded a 15-year sentence for each of 83 academics from Yıldız Technical University for alleged membership in the Gülen movement,...

Court releases 43 Air Force Academy students accused of coup involvement

An Ankara court on Tuesday released from pretrial detention 43 students of the Air Force Academy who were arrested on charges of involvement in...

19 more military officers arrested over smart phone app use

Nineteen more soldiers from the Turkish Armed Forces were arrested in Antalya on Monday evening on charges of membership in a terrorist organization for...

[VIDEO] 5 children abandoned in front of prison as mother detained

A video shared on Monday on social media shows five children left alone in tears in front of Sincan Prison in Ankara after their...

Prosecutor drops torture complaint due to impunity under state of emergency

A document recently issued by a prosecutor’s office in Trabzon stated that there are no grounds to investigate a torture complaint since police officers...

9 colonels detained over coup charges in northern Cyprus

Nine colonels of the Turkish military serving in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) were detained on Sunday over charges of coup involvement...

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