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Turkey bans access to 18 web pages, including sites revealing facts about failed coup

A Turkish court has banned access to 18 web pages, including Twitter accounts, news websites and blogs that reveal facts about a failed coup...

HDP starts sit-in at Constitutional Court

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies have started a sit-in at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara protesting the arrest of its deputies, the...

PM calls on CHP leader not to seek justice in street, take high-speed train to İstanbul

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has called on leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who kicked off a "March of Justice"...

[UPDATE] PM’s chief adviser released while wife arrested

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s chief adviser, Birol Erdem, who was detained on June 3 in Ankara as part of a witch-hunt targeting the...

Arrested hunger strikers Gülmen and Özakça facing heart failure

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators who have been on a hunger strike for 102 days, are now faced with heart failure,...

Former AKP deputy, founder join CHP’s ‘March of Justice’

On the second day of a "March of Justice" launched by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on Thursday in protest of the...

31 detained in KYK and PTT offices over ByLock use

Detention warrants were issued on Friday for 31 people who used to work at the Higher Education Loans and Accommodation (KYK) and the Post...

Interior Ministry removes three former AKP mayors from posts

Turkey's Interior Ministry has removed three mayors from their posts who were earlier expelled from the ranks of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

HDP spokesperson: We will not remain silent like those who were silent about Demirtaş

Osman Baydemir, spokesperson for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), said on Wednesday his party won't be silent on the arrest of main opposition...

EP’s Piri: Imprisonment of CHP deputy Berberoğlu is a new low point in Turkey

Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Turkey, on Thursday said the sentencing and imprisonment of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy...

Ankara mayor calls CHP’s ‘March of Justice’ a second coup attempt

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Melih Gökçek said on Thursday that a “March of Justice” started by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) could...

Court releases Doğan Holding Ankara representative sentenced over Gülen links

A high criminal court in İstanbul on Thursday handed down a prison sentence of 25 months to Doğan Holding Ankara representative Barbaros Muratoğlu, who...

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