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Pro-gov’t journalist: Gülen followers should be forced to commit suicide

Pro-government journalist and writer Fazıl Duygun has called on authorities to force people jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement to commit suicide. “FETÖ...

Gov’t seizes retirement bonus of rights activist removed from civil service job

Turkey’s Social Security Institution (SGK) has refused to pay a retirement bonus to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, one of Turkey’s most renowned human rights activists...

Blind journalist transferred to remote prison, held in windowless cell

Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has been sent a...

Photo shows jailed teacher at graves of relatives who died after prison visit

A photo showing Burak Aydın, a teacher jailed for alleged Gülen links, visiting the graves of four of his family members who died in...

Detention warrants issued on Monday for 56 over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday issued detention warrants for 56 people over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Jailed Turkish academic: The accusations should at least make sense

Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a military coup on July 15, 2016,...

Turkish prosecutor accuses Gülen movement of spreading Christianity

An indictment that demands 35 years in prison for American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016, accuses the...

Police detain more students at Boğaziçi University

Following a statement by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday that the government will clean “communist and terrorist students” out of universities, Turkish...

Turkish gov’t working on technology to block use of VPN

Amid concerns over the government's increased grip on the Internet due to a recent regulation governing online media outlets, an expert at the Turkish...

Erdoğan vows to clean communist youths out of universities

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday lambasted students at Bogaziçi University who protested other students for commemorating soldiers killed in a military operation...

Turkey says missile defense systems from US, Eurosam still a goal

Turkey is continuing to hold talks with the Franco-Italian Eurosam consortium and the United States to buy missile defense systems, Ankara's foreign ministry spokesman...

AKP co-founder indicted on charges of insulting Erdoğan

One of the co-founders of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Abdüllatif Şener, has been indicted on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip...

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