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68 arrested in Turkey after nationwide cybercrime raids: minister

Turkish courts have ordered the arrest of 68 people following nationwide cybercrime operations that targeted illegal betting networks, online child exploitation and large-scale fraud...

Dutch court freezes assets of TurkStream operator over Crimean seizures: report

A Dutch court has frozen the assets of TurkStream operator South Stream Transport as part of a bid by Ukrainian businesses to recover losses...

Turkish international among players arrested in betting scandal

An İstanbul court on Monday ordered the arrest of 20 people including 11 footballers from Turkey's first and second divisions, nine of whom are...

Prosecutors investigate leaked audio as court adjourns İstanbul mayor’s ‘fake diploma’ trial

A Turkish court on Monday adjourned the “fake diploma” trial of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu until February 16, 2026, while prosecutors opened an...

Turkey turns former İstanbul military land into luxury housing

Turkey has opened most of İstanbul’s former military land to construction over the past 19 years, turning large sites once held by the armed...

Turkey jails students under terrorist designation that fails basic legal test: UN rapporteurs

UN special rapporteurs have warned that Turkey is jailing university students as “terrorists” under a terrorism label for the faith-based Gülen movement that they...

EU withdraws map after Greek protest over islands shown in Turkish territory

The European Commission has withdrawn an educational brochure after Greece protested that a map inside it depicted several eastern Aegean and Dodecanese islands as...

Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes Turkey’s Antalya province

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Turkey’s Mediterranean province of Antalya on Monday, shaking coastal areas of both Turkey and Greece, according to the US...

Police officer dies after being shot during drug raid in İstanbul

A police officer was critically wounded in a drug raid Monday in İstanbul’s Çekmeköy district and later died at a hospital, the state-run Anadolu...

Turkish lawyer jailed over Gülen links dies after delayed release from prison

Süleyman Yıldırım, a 59-year-old lawyer who lost his leg after what his relatives described as months of delayed medical care in prison and was...

University students among 6 jailed in Turkey over alleged Gülen links

A court in Turkey's northwestern Edirne province has ordered the arrest of six people, including university students, over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...

Police officer suspended after protesting gov’t talks with PKK

A traffic police officer in the central Turkish city of Eskişehir was suspended from duty after blocking a tram line and denouncing the government’s...

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