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Writer Düzkan surrenders to serve prison sentence for supporting Kurdish daily

Feminist writer and journalist Ayşe Düzkan on Tuesday surrendered to authorities to serve an 18-month jail sentence handed down for acting as the symbolic...

Turkish court arrests fighter jet commander over Gülen links

A Turkish court on Tuesday arrested Brig. Gen. Özkan Edip Akgülay, who was in charge of all fighter jets in the Turkish Air Forces,...

Turkish language school to pay damages to Harvard University in name dispute

An Istanbul court has ordered a language school in Turkey to pay damages in the amount of 73,000 Turkish lira (approximately $13,830) to Harvard...

Turkish government begins shutting down private prep schools

Turkey’s Education Ministry has announced that private prep schools will be closed down as of the 2019-2020 academic year, the state-run Anatolia news agency...

3 injured in attack on CHP district branch in İstanbul

Three officials from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were injured in an attack at the party branch in İstanbul’s Eyüp district on...

Jailed lawyer allowed to attend father’s funeral in handcuffs

Turkish Lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı, the president of the now-closed Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD) who has been behind bars since November 2017 on terrorism charges,...

11 more detained in Turkey over Gülen links

Turkish media reported on Monday that 11 people, three of them women, have been detained in Kahramanmaraş province as part of an investigation into...

Singer wife ordered to pay Turkish debt of gold trader Zarrab

Singer Ebru Gündeş, the wife of Turkish Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is jailed in the United Stated for facilitating a scheme to...

Turkish public’s trust in media dropped by 3 pct to 27 pct in 2018: survey

Only 27 percent of the Turkish public expressed trust in the media last year, a 3 percent drop from 2017, according to the Edelman...

İstanbul municipality made large fund transfers to foundations run by Erdoğan’s family members

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality transferred an exorbitant amount of money to foundations run by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s family members, according to a report...

Former first lady Gül suspected plot to kill her husband

Former first lady of Turkey Hayrünnisa Gül was suspicious of a plot to kill her husband, Abdullah Gül, according to a column that appeared...

Former minister says voting for ruling AKP will ensure salvation in the hereafter

Former Minister of Education and current Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy İsmet Yılmaz said on Friday that voting for the ruling party in...

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