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Opposition deputy investigated for criticizing sale of military tank factory to Qatar

An investigation has been launched into a deputy from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) for criticizing Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party...

Book for young people banned in Turkey for promoting ‘immorality’

Turkish authorities have banned a book by the famous Austrian writer Christine Nöstlinger on the grounds that it promotes immorality, the Birgün daily reported. The...

20 healthcare professionals in Turkey lost to COVID-19 in a week

Twenty healthcare workers have died over the past week while combatting the coronavirus pandemic, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) announced. More and more healthcare workers...

Minority language newspapers in Turkey in financial bottleneck as state aid cut

The prospects of the survival of minority language newspapers in Turkey look dimmer after the country’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK) failed to make a...

‘We have to take measures,’ says ErdoÄŸan as opposition questions COVID death toll

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Friday said his government was obliged to take measures in the face of skyrocketing COVID-19 infections in the...

NATO’s reform plan to make veto more difficult likely to be blocked by Turkey

NATO-appointed experts on Wednesday presented to the foreign ministers of member countries a plan on reforming the alliance, including a proposal to make it...

4 detained in police raid of Kurdish party branch, other locations in eastern Turkey

Four people were detained when Turkish police raided the provincial office of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and various other locations in the...

Turkish MP hints at fraud in national lottery after same numbers drawn twice in row

An opposition lawmaker has hinted at fraud in Turkey’s national lottery, Milli Piyango, after four out of six numbers drawn separately on November 18...

Approval rating of opposition ally alarmingly low among AKP voters, survey reveals

Approximately 20 percent of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voters do not have a favorable view of Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist...

Former cadets, officers among 54 detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Friday detained 54 people as part of an İstanbul-based operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The Turkish government accuses the...

Minister accuses Kurdish villagers allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers of aiding terrorists

Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in...

Six years on, gov’t crackdown on Gülen movement continues at dramatic pace

by Cevheri Güven A government crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement launched following a corruption scandal in Turkey in late 2013 and culminating in...

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