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Another 76 detained in Turkey over use of ‘suspected’ mobile app

Seventy-six public officials who were claimed to be using ByLock, a smart phone messaging application, have been detained as part of a witch-hunt targeting...

Mavi Marmara flotilla organizer: Turkey in weak position with Israel

Bülent Yıldırım, president of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in...

AKP deputy: Naive to think ‘FETÖ’ has not infiltrated our party

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Sakarya deputy Ayhan Sefer Üstün said on Tuesday that there should also be a cleansing within the...

Erdoğan expands his witch-hunt against Gülen movement to UN General Assembly

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan expanded his witch-hunt against the faith-based Gülen movement to the United Nations General Assembly as he called on world leaders...

Altan’s lawyers: Stories of ‘evidence’ in Turkish media are distorted

  Following news stories that appeared in the Turkish media on Tuesday reporting on “evidence” of the Gülen movement affiliation of detained columnist Professor Mehmet...

Kyrgyz president hospitalized in İstanbul on way UN meetings

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev fell ill while travelling to İstanbul, from where he would fly to New York to attend the UN General Assembly,...

Prosecutor again summons Demirtaş to testify

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has summoned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş to give testimony as part of an investigation...

Court dismisses compensation case filed by Gülen against Erdoğan

An Ankara court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit for damages filed by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen against the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip...

7 PKK terrorists killed in Hakkari

Seven outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants were killed in the Dağlıca district of Hakkari province on Tuesday, the Turkish military announced. The Turkish Air...

Parliament speaker says bombed part of Parliament to be converted into museum

At a time when the country's main opposition leader has called on the Turkish government to repair damage to the Parliament building caused by...

45 students sentenced to 10 months for Erdoğan protest

Forty-five students at Middle East Technical University received 10-month jail sentences for participating in a protest while then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was visiting...

Syria, Iraq cross-border motion sent to Parliament for approval

A motion seeking to extend the mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct military operations in Iraq and Syria for another year has...

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