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Trial for Turkey’s prominent journalists starts today

Seventeen suspects, including prominent Turkish journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, are to appear in a first hearing at an İstanbul court...

CHP’s Erdoğdu: Erdoğan ordered media not to cover March of Justice

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aykut Erdoğdu on Sunday said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had gathered media bosses and ordered them not...

Demirtaş: Referendum results would be different if we weren’t in prison

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been jailed since November 2016, has said the results of a recent referendum in...

Former MHP deputy Akşener starting new political party

Meral Akşener, former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy and leadership candidate, has said that after consulting several thousand people she had decided to establish...

21 detained as 731 more soldiers get food poisoning

Twenty-one employees of a catering company that provided food to a military base in Manisa province were detained after 731 soldiers were hospitalized on...

Erdoğan implies CHP chair Kılıçdaroğlu may be detained for inviting people to ‘March of Justice’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who is walking from Ankara to...

CHP leader finds re-arrest of Kavurmacı wrong

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu criticized a decision to re-arrest Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı, the son-in-law of İstanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş,...

US Consulate General warns citizens of potential terrorist threat in 2 İstanbul districts

A security message from the US İstanbul Consulate General on Friday warned Americans of a possible terrorist treat in the Mecidiyeköy and Şişli districts...

Turkish NGOs bring April 16 referendum to ECtHR agenda

A group of Turkish NGOs, including the Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB), the Halkevleri (Community Centers) and the Alevi Pir Sultan...

HDP’s Tan receives two-year suspended sentence

Altan Tan, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a suspended sentence of 24 months for “inciting hatred...

Justice minister condemns CHP leader for ‘targeting judiciary’

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has condemned main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for 'targeting and threatening the judiciary while a prosecution...

60 PKK terrorists ‘neutralized’ in one week

Sixty members of the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been “neutralized” in military operations in eastern Turkey over the past week, the...

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