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Turkey provoking nationalists against Armenian residents amid Azerbaijani-Armenian clashes, deputy says

The green light given by Turkish authorities for Turkish nationalists to hold demonstrations in front of the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul is a provocation,...

Hawkish rhetoric against Armenia explodes in Turkey as Azerbaijan advances in contested enclave

Bellicosity and warmongering took hold of Turkish public discourse after reports of military gains for Azerbaijan against Armenian forces on Sunday over a disputed...

Company run by Turkish intel agency owns planes used in renditions: report

An Ankara-based aviation company owns the aircraft used in alleged renditions of Turkish dissidents by the country's National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T), according to an...

Pro-Kurdish mayor, 2 politicians in police custody hospitalized for food poisoning

Ayhan Bilgen, co-mayor of the eastern city of Kars from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and two other HDP politicians were hospitalized for...

Opposition TV channel’s screen goes black over criticism of Turkish foreign policy

Halk TV, one of the few television stations in Turkey that is critical of the government, has been slapped with a five-day broadcasting ban...

Selahattin DemirtaÅŸ: an ever-present threat to ErdoÄŸan

By Cevheri Güven Selahattin Demirtaş has been under arrest for four years now. In fact, he was released by a court; however, another court order...

Police raids target 182 over Gülen, pro-Kurdish and leftist ties

Turkish police serving detention warrants on Friday targeted 82 pro-Kurdish politicians, 76 academics and university employees and 24 activists. The country already has tens of...

Turkish journalist living in exile attacked in Sweden

Three men attacked critical Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt on Thursday near his home in Stockholm, the Swedish-based Nordic Monitor news website reported. Bozkurt and his...

Ankara orders detention of 82 Kurdish politicians over protests against alleged Turkish support for ISIL

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered the detention of 82 prominent pro-Kurdish politicians, with some of them detained as of Friday morning...

Turkish spy admits plan to assassinate Kurdish-Austrian politician

An operative working for Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has admitted to being ordered to kill a Kurdish-Austrian politician in a bid to “cause...

6 Turkish lawyers arrested on charges of ‘filing criminal complaints of torture’

Six lawyers out of 39 who appeared in court on Tuesday after 12 days in police custody have been arrested on the questionable charges...

Cleric to testify after alleging 2,000 Salafist groups in Turkey are arming themselves

The Ä°stanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office will hear the testimony of a cleric from a Sunni religious order after he claimed on a live...

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