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Turkey’s interior minister gave permission for sparkling wine spray at F1

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu gave special permission for a spray of sparkling wine to celebrate the end of the Formula One Turkish Grand...

AKP-MHP bloc slams opposition for voicing worries about political assassinations

Officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have criticized senior opposition politicians for...

Former Turkish Cypriot president among 42 facing entry ban to Turkey

Forty-two intellectuals, writers and politicians from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) including former president Mustafa Akıncı, all of whom are critical of...

Mob boss sentenced to prison for insulting, threatening Turkey’s main opposition leader

An Ankara court has sentenced notorious Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı to one year, eight months in prison on charges of insulting and threatening...

More than 750 former cadets detained in Turkey as they turned 18

More than 750 former military cadets have been detained to date in 2021 over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as they turned...

Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement

Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...

Inmates objecting to unlawful strip-search beaten in Turkish prison

Inmates were beaten by guards for resisting a strip-search when they were transferred to TekirdaÄŸ Prison in northwestern Turkey, the Stockholm Center for Freedom...

Opposition MP not allowed to visit critically ill woman in prison

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairwoman Gülizar Biçer Karaca wasn’t allowed to visit critically ill Ayşe Özdoğan, 34, who was sent to prison...

460 inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates, Justice Ministry says

Four hundred sixty inmates in Turkish prisons have doctorates and 2,371 have master’s degrees, according to the general directorate of prisons and houses of...

ErdoÄŸan signals new military push into Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan signaled Monday that Turkey was preparing to launch a new military operation in Syria, where its forces are under...

Car bomb kills six in northern Syria’s Afrin: monitor

A car bombing in the northern Syrian city of Afrin on Monday killed six people, including at least one Turkey-backed rebel fighter, Agence France-Presse...

Ministers signed blank papers for ErdoÄŸan to issue as Cabinet decrees, Babacan says

Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) leader and former Turkish deputy prime minister Ali Babacan said in an interview aired on TELE1 on Saturday that...

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