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Erdoğan confidant criticizes treatment of purged civil servants

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Parliament Speaker Bülent Arınç, currently a member of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Higher Advisory Board, has criticized the treatment of former...

Migrants trying to enter Europe face harsh conditions in Turkey’s Edirne: report

Migrants stranded in the Turkish province of Edirne at the border with Greece face "death and desperation," according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the...

60 Turks returning from Iran put under observation for coronavirus at border hospitals

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has announced that 60 Turkish nationals are being kept under observation at field hospitals set up near border gates with Iran, which...

YouTube blocks channel run by Turkey’s post-coup purge victims

YouTube has blocked a channel run by some of Turkey’s purge victims who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees following a 2016 coup attempt,...

Widow of fallen Turkish soldier sentenced to prison over Gülen links

Sezen Ataş, the widow of Lt. Murat Ataş, who was killed in October 2016 in a terrorist attack carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),...

Jailed Turkish law student prevented from taking exams over alleged security concerns

Justice Ministry authorities in the western Turkish city of İzmir have refused to allow jailed law student Emine Altın to take exams at her...

Turkey quarantines citizens evacuated by air from Iran

Turkish authorities in Ankara have placed under quarantine 132 passengers and 10 crew members of a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight organized to evacuate citizens from neighboring Iran,...

Turkish court releases imprisoned Grup Yorum musician on death fast

İbrahim Gökçek, a jailed Turkish musician and a member of the leftist Grup Yorum band who has been on a death fast since Jan. 3, was...

Ankara prosecutors launch investigation into HDP congress over Öcalan pictures

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into a congress held on Sunday by the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over a slide show...

Turkey’s health minister denies claims of rerouting of THY plane over coronavirus suspicion

Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca on Tuesday denied claims that an airplane from Tehran was redirected from İstanbul to Ankara over a suspected case of coronavirus on...

Erdoğan accuses Fox TV of spreading ‘fake news’ about Turkish losses in Libya

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday scolded Fox TV reporter Barış Kaya for a question about his earlier remarks on Turkey’s casualties in Libya, the Diken...

Report confirming 2013 Erdoğan corruption recordings were not fabricated submitted to court

Celal Çelik, a lawyer for the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), submitted an expert report to a court on Monday confirming that...

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