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3 İstanbul airport construction workers arrested for protesting late shuttles

Three more workers from İstanbul’s new airport construction site were arrested on Friday because they were protesting delayed rush hour shuttles, the Evrensel daily...

Erdoğan says Turkey has right to request journalist Dündar’s extradition

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said Turkey had the right to request the extradition from Germany of Can Dündar, former editor of opposition...

Patreon blocks accounts of exiled journalists over threat by Turkish gov’t

Patreon has blocked access from Turkey to the accounts of exiled Turkish journalists over the Turkish government's threats to close down the website entirely...

German politicians slam smartphone application used for spying on Erdoğan critics

Several German politicians have expressed anger over the use of a smartphone application, developed by the Turkish Security Directorate General, by Turkish expatriates in...

HDP member arrested over dollar comment on social media

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member İdris İlhan was arrested on Thursday on charges of disseminating the propaganda of terrorist organizations and opposing the law...

Turkey’s watchdog granted right to collect personal information of Internet TV viewers

A newly introduced regulation has granted the authority to Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to collect information about the viewers of Internet...

Lawyer’s office attacked in Eskişehir due to animosity towards HDP

Unidentified individuals staged an attack on an office belonging to lawyer Heval Yıldız Karasu in Eskişehir’s Odunpazarı district on Tuesday night, the Demirören news...

Erdoğan says court, not politicians, will decide fate of pastor Brunson: report

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said a Turkish court, not politicians, will decide the fate of an American pastor whose detention on terrorism charges has...

Detention warrants issued for 36 active duty, 25 former military officers over Gülen links

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday issued detention warrants for 36 active duty and 25 former military members as part of an...

AKP-MHP to continue alliance in 2019’s local elections

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have agreed to continue an alliance they made for general and...

Former TRT cameraman given suspended sentence on Erdoğan insult charges

Binali Erdoğan, a cameraman who used to work for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), has been given a suspended jail sentence of...

At least 1,021 women murdered in Turkey since 2016, report shows

A report drafted by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) shows that at least 1,021 women were murdered in Turkey between Jan. 1,...

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