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Secret Turkish police document shows monitoring of Gülen-linked activities in the Netherlands: report

A confidential Turkish police document cited in a new legal report shows that Turkish authorities monitored activities linked to the faith-based Gülen movement in...

Turkey’s state railway operator posts record 35.5 bln lira loss

Turkey’s state railway operator posted a net loss of 35.53 billion lira ($774 million) in 2025, more than five times its 2022 loss in...

Turkey extradites brother of wanted drug trafficker Bolle Jos to Netherlands

Turkey has extradited the older brother of fugitive Dutch drug trafficker Joseph Johannes Leijdekkers, known as Bolle Jos, to the Netherlands after Turkish authorities detained...

Veteran Turkish TV journalist dies at 66

Veteran Turkish television journalist and news anchor Reha Muhtar died early Wednesday at a hospital in Bodrum, where he had been receiving treatment for...

Former Turkish spy faces life sentence over alleged betrayal of defectors, state secrets to Assad

A former Turkish intelligence officer faces a life sentence on accusations that he helped Bashar al-Assad’s intelligence service abduct two Syrian opposition commanders from...

Erdoğan adviser slams Kanye West’s İstanbul concert, says it put youth under ‘cultural siege’

A senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that a Kanye West concert in İstanbul on Saturday put young people under...

Pro-Kurdish party leader says intervention in Turkey’s main opposition threatens all politics

Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, said Tuesday that a court ruling targeting the...

Turkish authorities detain 70 in ISIL operations across 21 provinces

Turkish authorities have detained 70 people in operations targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) across 21 provinces, the Interior Ministry...

Turkey’s lowest monthly pension buys less than 16 days of food for family of four: study

Turkey’s lowest monthly pension no longer covers even 16 days of food expenses for a family of four, while the minimum wage covers only...

Bahçeli urges top court to rule quickly on CHP leadership crisis

Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), on Tuesday urged Turkey’s top appeals court to rule quickly on a legal challenge...

Turkey’s main opposition says Erdoğan is trying to retain power by removing alternatives, vows to resist

Turkey’s main opposition party on Tuesday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of trying to hold on to power by eliminating political alternatives. The accusation came...

CHP delegates reach signature threshold in bid for congress after court reinstates former leader

Delegates from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) reached the required number of signatures on Monday to convene an extraordinary congress, after a...

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