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İYİ Party leader Akşener resigns, calls for emergency convention

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener on Sunday resigned as party chairwoman and announced an emergency convention to decide on new leadership. “With the authority...

334 people detained in past week over Gülen links

A total of 334 people have been detained in the past week as part of a crackdown targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement,...

[UPDATE] Woman arrested for insulting Atatürk at his mausoleum

A woman who recorded herself in a video insulting Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, at his mausoleum in Ankara was arrested...

Jailed CHP deputy protests court decision with self-imposed isolation

Jailed Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu on Saturday decided to isolate himself from the outside world to protest a Friday decision of...

Bodies of mother and 1-year-old son found on banks of Evros River

The bodies of Hatice Akçabay and her 1-year-old son Bekir Aras, who went missing when a boat capsized on Wednesday, have been found on...

[UPDATE] Abducted HDP member returns home after two days

A Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) member and businessman Kamil Acar, who was abducted by masked gunmen in Diyarbakır on Thursday, returned home after two...

Warrants issued in large-scale investigation into activist social media accounts

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has started to issue detention warrants in a massive investigation into social media accounts run by activists posting...

335 undocumented migrants apprehended in Turkey in 24-hour period

At least 335 undocumented migrants were apprehended by authorities across Turkey on Friday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing security sources. In eastern Erzurum...

Giving birth at Gülen-linked hospital cited as reason for termination from job

Workers who were fired from their jobs at İzmir’s Ege University lost their jobs because they had a baby or received medical treatment at...

Court of appeals declines to halt CHP’s Berberoğlu trial due to re-election

The 16th Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday rejected an application made by lawyers representing jailed Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy...

Two HDP deputies face investigation for attending PKK terrorist’s funeral

An investigation has been launched into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Batman deputies Feleknas Uca and Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki for attending the funeral of...

Journalist Gökkılıç, 5 former police chiefs arrested over 2012 Turkish intelligence crisis

An İstanbul court arrested a journalist and 5 former police chiefs as part of an investigation into a crisis into a crisis in the...

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