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Detention warrants issued for 25 including lawyers over ByLock use

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 25 people, 22 of whom are lawyers and three of whom are staff at the Union of...

Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence

A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including one on Jesus Christ have been confiscated...

Indictment against Turkish comedian Demirci accepted by Ankara court

An Ankara court on Wednesday accepted an indictment against Turkish comedian Atalay Demirci, who was arrested in August 2016 over alleged links to the...

Bild: Two Turkish generals applied for asylum in Germany

Two Turkish generals who are accused of taking part in a failed military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 applied for asylum in...

CHP leader says expelled educators on hunger strike being forced to die

Leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has broken his silence about two educators who went on a hunger strike...

HRF publishes full page ad telling Erdoğan ‘You are not welcome’

The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Tuesday published a full-page ad in The Washington Times for the visit of Turkish President Recep...

İstanbul Municipality closes down magazine for covering Erdoğan graffiti

The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has closed down a magazine printed by the municipality and sacked three people who were responsible for its publication after...

Eight directors removed from posts at TRT

Following the resignation of state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) General Manager Şenol Göka last week, eight directors at TRT were removed from...

Court releases baklava maker arrested over Gülen links

Serdar Seyidoğlu, the general manager of the Seyidoğlu Baklava chain, who was arrested over alleged links to the Gülen movement last October, was released...

Academic, journalist given suspended sentences for showing solidarity with  Özgür Gündem

A professor and a journalist who stood trial separately for serving as “editor-in-chief on duty” for the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily were handed down...

Three SAT commandos detained on coup charges in Edirne while trying to flee Turkey

Three Turkish Underwater Attack Commandos (SAT) members who allegedly took part in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15 were detained in...

Detention warrants issued for 85 at education, energy ministries over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 85 people working at Turkey's education and energy ministries over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...

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