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Turkey orders detention of 174 active duty soldiers, 174 others in post-coup crackdown

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 348 people as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused...

Turkey arrests VoA reporter over pending prison sentence

Arif Aslan, the Voice of America (VoA) correspondent in Turkey’s eastern Van province, was arrested on Tuesday morning to serve a prison sentence he...

Turkey arrests social media user who threatened wife of jailed Kurdish politician

A Turkish criminal court in Sakarya province on Tuesday arrested a man who on social media threatened Başak Demirtaş, the wife of imprisoned Kurdish...

Turkey makes face masks compulsory in 42 provinces: minister

Turkey has made the wearing of face masks mandatory in five more provinces, following an uptick in COVID-19 cases, The Associated Press reported. Health Minister...

Turkey’s daily coronavirus numbers keep rising with 1,592 new cases in single day

Turkey’s new coronavirus cases continued to increase on Monday, rising to 1,592 in a single day from 786 on June 2, according to a...

Mother of 2 detained by police for second time over Gülen links

Yasemin Baltacı, 29, a mother of two, was detained again on Monday in Turkey’s Tekirdağ province as part of an investigation into the faith-based...

Turkey releases 6 journalists after top appeals court overturns sentences

The İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court on Monday released journalists Ahmet Memiş, Cemal Kalyoncu, Gökçe Fırat Çulhaoğlu, Ünal Tanık, Yakup Çetin and Yetkin Yıldız,...

Scientist warns of new measures after Turkey reports increase in COVID-19 cases

Professor Levent Yamanel, a member of Turkey’s scientific board advising the government on COVID-19, said the country might adopt new measures including curfews, the...

Greece picks up 36 more migrants off Lesbos: report

Thirty-six migrants travelling from Turkey were spotted off Lesbos and transferred to a temporary settlement in the north of the island, Greece’s coastguard said...

Greece draws up 4 deterrence plans for Turkey’s expected east Med drilling: report

In anticipation of a crisis in September, when Turkey says it plans to begin drilling on Greece's continental shelf, Athens has devised four deterrence...

Turkey posts $2.53 billion budget deficit in May: report

Turkey's central government budget posted a deficit of 17.3 billion lira ($2.53 billion) in May, data from the Finance Ministry showed on Monday, according...

Police detain 10 in HDP march protesting ousting of party members from parliament

Police intervened and detained 10 people in a march launched on Monday by Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to protest the stripping of...

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