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40 businessmen in İstanbul arrested over Gülen link

Forty businessmen, including the CEOs of two of Turkey’s biggest holdings, Fikret İnan of Fi Yapı Holding and Fatih Aktaş of Akfa Holding, were...

BBP deputy chairman arrested in Mersin over Gülen links

Kaptan Kartal, deputy chairman of the Grand Unity Party (BBP), was arrested by a court in Mersin on Friday as part of a government-initiated...

İstanbul’s third bridge opens

The Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, a third span over the Bosporus that will connect the Asian and European sides of Istanbul, was opened on...

PKK claims responsibility for attack on Kılıçdaroğlu

The terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack targeting Turkey’s main opposition leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, on Thursday; however, it...

Turkey releases murderer of priest Santoro along with other criminals

Following the Turkish government’s sudden decision to prematurely release nearly 40,000 convicts despite the gravity of their crimes to make space in prisons in...

2 workers killed in PKK ambush in Turkey

Two workers at a road construction site in a protected zone in Dağlıca, Hakkari province, were killed and two were injured in a terrorist...

Police detain 65 Council of State staff members in coup attempt probe

Ankara police on Thursday detained 65 staff members at one of the country’s highest courts, the Council of State, in an investigation into the...

43 detained in İzmir, Ankara over links to Gülen movement

Police detained 43 people on Friday as part of an ongoing witch hunt operation targeting the Gülen movement in İzmir and Ankara provinces. An İzmir...

40 ISIL suspects detained in operations in Konya, Adana

Forty people were detained on Friday in operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in Konya and Adana provinces. Konya...

UPDATE: 11 police officers killed, 78 wounded in PKK car bomb attack in Cizre

Eleven police officers were killed and 78 people were injured when terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants attacked a police checkpoint in a bomb-laden...

Wives of arrested officers complain husbands unjustly labelled as traitors

Wives of the 45 senior military officers who were arrested on coup charges in Sanliurfa following a failed coup attempt on July 15 have...

Nationalist leader: Attack on CHP chairman aims to spark civil war

An armed attack against main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was aimed at sparking a civil war between segments of society,...

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