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[VIDEO] Erdoğan says Gezi Park protesters were backed by imperialist powers

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that protesters who opposed the felling of trees in İstanbul's Gezi Park and initiated civic unrest...

University admits anti-Gülen commission members attended movement’s meetings

Turkey's Adıyaman University on Tuesday said some members of a commission established to investigate the links of academic staff to the Gülen movement along...

Erdoğan: Kılıçdaroğlu will pay for warning German tourists against travel to Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday for recent remarks to German Focus magazine...

Turkey begins construction of 144 km wall on border with Iran

Turkey has begun construction of a 144-kilometer-long wall along its border with Iran in order to stop illegal crossings. A Habertürk daily report said on...

Spain arrests Swedish-Turkish writer at Turkey’s order on terror charges

Swedish-Turkish writer Hamza Yalçın, 59, was arrested on Tuesday while holidaying in Spain, after Ankara accused him having links to terrorist groups. According to the...

Reactions mount over Bozdağ’s Twitter remarks

Deputy Prime Minister and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Bekir Bozdağ has been criticized on social media for saying that “nobody has...

Kılıçdaroğlu says AKP member encouraged by Erdoğan to make ‘new state’ claim

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan encouraged Ayhan Oğan, a former member of the Central...

Pro-gov’t columnist calls for arrest of CHP leader and deputies

Staunchly pro-government Yeni Akit daily columnist Mehtap Yılmaz in a Monday article called for the arrest of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader...

Abducted academic’s wife says ordered by authorities to stop pursuing case

Emine Özben, the wife of Mustafa Özben, who was allegedly abducted by Turkish intelligence in May, said she was threatened and ordered by authorities...

Erdoğan rejects claims of founding a new Turkish state

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday there are no efforts to establish a new Turkish state and that he is not its...

Military chief held by putschists treated with respect, says coup suspect

Former Turkish Air Forces commander and member of the Supreme Military Council Akın Öztürk, a key suspect in a trial concerning a failed coup...

HÜDA-PAR supports AKP member’s ‘new state’ remarks

Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, chair of the Free Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR), a political arm of the Kurdish Hizbullah and a close ally of the ruling Justice...

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