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Arrest warrant issued for Cumhuriyet CEO Atalay

An arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday for the Cumhuriyet daily’s chief executive officer, Akın Atalay, after he was not found at his residence...

ByLock owner says app was available on Apple Store

The owner of a messaging application called ByLock over which thousands of people have been arrested in Turkey called the president of the Coup...

Turkish PM to propose reinstatement of death penalty in constitution

  Following support expressed by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli for the government’s intention to reinstate capital punishment in Turkey, the prime minister...

Çaldıran co-mayor detained on terror charges

Co-mayor of the Çaldıran district in eastern Van province Suna Atabay was detained on Tuesday on charges of allegedly spreading terrorist propaganda. The detention warrant...

[UPDATE] Ankara district governor appointed as trustee to Diyarbakır Municipality

Cumali Atilla, governor of Ankara's Etimesgut district, has been appointed as a trustee to the Diyarbakır Municipality, whose co-mayors were arrested on terrorism charges...

Defense minister says Turkish military deployment in Silopi related to Iraq developments

Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Işık has said the deployment ofTurkish military members to Şırnak's Silopi district, an area near the Iraqi border, is related...

Man who attacked nurse in shorts released again

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to release Abdullah Çakıroğlu, who was arrested in September for attacking a young nurse on a bus in...

[UPDATE] Turkey detains 21 RTÜK employees in anti-Gülen operation 

Twenty-one people working for the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÃœK), the Turkish state agency for monitoring, regulating and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts,...

Boğaziçi University academics call for annulment of decree canceling rector elections

Academics from one of Turkey's most prestigious universities, the İstanbul-based Boğaziçi University, have called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to annul...

MHP leader Bahçeli defends government crackdown on Cumhuriyet daily

Leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli has expressed his support for an operation targeting the Cumhuriyet daily, which resulted in the...

HDP leader says Diyarbakır co-mayors not arrested but taken hostage by AKP

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has refused to use legal terminology to describe what happened to two Diyarbakır co-mayors,...

We don’t care about your red line, Turkish PM tells EP’s Schulz

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has lashed out at European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz, who harshly criticized the detention of a number of...

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