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No campaign speech from Erdoğan on TRT due to ‘busy schedule’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not deliver a campaign speech as the presidential candidate of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on...

İYİ Party gives ‘Kim Jong-un press freedom award’ to TRT

In a move to protest the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), which has been criticized for acting as the mouthpiece of Turkey’s ruling...

Erdoğan says first thing to do after elections is to end state of emergency

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government will terminate an ongoing state of emergency in the...

Video shows Erdoğan pressuring party officials to ensure HDP remains under election threshold

President and Justice and Development Party (AKP) leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged his party’s local officials to ensure that the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic...

6 former national football team stars indicted over Gülen links

An indictment seeking from seven to 15 years in prison for six former Turkish footballers over links to the Gülen movement was accepted by...

Int’l press freedom groups call for acquittal of Zaman journalists in ‘manifestly political case’

ARTICLE 19, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have reiterated a call for the acquittal of all defendants in the...

Constitutional Court rejects Demirtaş’s application for release

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application filed by lawyers for jailed presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş for his release during the campaign period for...

Erdoğan targets Demirtaş: Requirements for running for presidency should change

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the requirements for standing as a candidate in presidential elections should be changed, in reference to jailed presidential nominee...

Demirtaş’s TRT speech to be shown during HDP rally in İstanbul

A campaign speech made by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş from prison to be broadcast on Turkish Radio and Television...

Several injured as CHP election office attacked in Konya

Several members of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) were injured when a group of unknown assailants attacked the party’s election office in...

Presidential candidate İnce’s wife visits jailed rival Demirtaş’s wife in Diyarbakır

Republican People’s Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce’s wife, Ülkü İnce, on Monday evening visited Başak Demirtaş, the wife of jailed rival Selahattin Demirtaş,...

CHP deputies, members protest vice principal for threatening tweet

Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies and members on Tuesday protested a vice principal in front of the Tuzla Evliya Çelebi school after he posted...

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