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Young teacher jailed over Gülen links suffers psychological breakdown in prison

Harun Karateke, a 27-year-old English teacher who was jailed in March 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, is suffering mental health problems in...

Turkish military officers among 74 sought on warrants over alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 74 people, 32 of whom are military officers, due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is...

Erdoğan appoints former aide as member of higher advisory board

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed former Deputy Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç as a member of the Presidential Higher Advisory Board, Turkish media...

Turkish military launches operation against PKK in northern Iraq

Turkey’s military has launched an operation with commandos, backed by artillery and airstrikes, against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq,...

CHP leader warm to Kurdish demands for education in mother tongue

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said every citizen of Turkey has a right to learn and write in their mother tongue, in...

AKP candidate takes over parliament speaker’s Twitter account for use in election

Binali Yıldırım, the ruling party candidate for mayor of İstanbul, has taken over the official Twitter account that he used during his tenure as speaker of...

Pro-gov’t TV anchor forgets mike is live, criticizes Turkish President Erdoğan

Oğuz Haksever, an anchor for Turkey’s pro-government NTV, on Monday forgot his microphone was live while airing video footage of the inauguration of the Yassıada Island...

Turkey seeks to produce lung cancer vaccine employing Cuban technology

Turkey and Cuba have agreed to establish a study group to collaborate on various vaccines, including for lung cancer, and medical drugs, the Turkish Health Ministry...

Turkish woman returned to prison with newborn 4 days after birth

Hatice Şahnaz, in pretrial detention on charges of alleged links to the Gülen movement, was put back behind bars in southern Turkey a few days after...

Fifth Turkish journalist attacked in May

Turkish journalist Sabahattin Önkibar was beaten in the vicinity of his house in Ankara on Friday evening, marking the fifth such attack in May, HaberTurk reported...

Latest polls show opposition’s İmamoğlu leading in İstanbul election re-run

The latest polls for the re-run of the İstanbul mayoral election indicate that opposition alliance candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu is leading the race. According to a pro-government MAK...

Ex-diplomats detained over Gülen links subjected to severe torture, says deputy

Some 20 former employees of the Turkish Foreign Ministry who were among 100 detained last week as part of an investigation into alleged cheating during exams...

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