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Turkish radio show host calls on police to kill Afrin operation critics

Kral FM radio host Ali Şentürk, known as "Afrikalı Ali," called on security forces to kill anybody who criticizes Turkey's operation in the Kurdish-controlled...

CHP deputy: Reyhanlı rockets fired from inside Turkish territory

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Mevlüt Dudu on Tuesday said rockets that killed one and injured 46 in the Reyhanlı district of...

16 more military personnel sought for detention over alleged Gülen links

The Ordu Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 16 military personnel of various ranks as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

Journalist Baysal detained over tweets critical of Turkey’s Afrin operation

Journalist Nurcan Baysal was detained at her home early on Monday morning for posting tweets critical of an ongoing Turkish military operation in the...

Erdoğan’s news agency targets exiled journalists over Afrin messages

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, which was managed by a former advisor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Sunday targeted exiled Zaman media group...

CHP expresses support for Afrin operations

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Sunday expressed full support for Operation Olive Branch, carried out by the Turkish military and targeting...

Investigation launched into HDP deputies over Afrin tweets

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday launched an investigation into pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ayhan Bilgen and Nadir Yıldırım for...

58 including air force cadets sentenced to consecutive life sentences

An İstanbul court handed down aggravated life sentences to 23 military members and life sentences to 35 military personnel for attempting to change the...

Erdoğan advisor likens Turkey purge to Aborigine, Native American, Armenian cases

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup era witch-hunt...

İstanbul court again refuses to release journalist Altan

İstanbul’s 26th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a demand for release filed by lawyers representing journalist Mehmet Altan despite a decision by Turkey’s...

Turkish army shells Afrin despite US reaction

The Turkish Armed Forces on Friday hit several Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets in the Afrin area of Syria hours after the US...

HRW: Media, activists, political opposition targeted in Turkey in 2017

Human Rights Watch on Thursday said in its World Report 2018 that Turkey had increased restrictions on the media, the political opposition and human...

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