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81-year-old Alzheimer’s patient detained over Gülen links

A 81-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease was detained by police in the Turkish province of İzmir on Monday due to his links to the...

Detention warrants issued for 22 including former police officers over Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 22 people including former police officers over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish...

Hrant Dink commemorated in Ä°stanbul 13 years after his murder: report

Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday outside the former offices of the Agos newspaper in Ä°stanbul where Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was murdered 13 years ago,...

Mother of jailed military cadet prevented from launching ‘Justice March,’ detained

Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 and...

Travel ban forces young cancer patient to seek treatment overseas without mother

Eight-year-old Ahmet Burhan Ataç on Sunday travelled to Germany for cancer treatment without his parents, who are both victims of a purge carried out...

Insurance company AKsigorta refuses to pay auto claim for purge victim

AKsigorta, a Turkish insurance company, has rejected a claim for damages sustained in an accident by one of its insureds on the grounds that the claimant...

Pregnant Turkish inmate suffers anxiety attack after being denied medication

Esra Uymaz Saral, a 27-year-old Turkish woman who was arrested in Ä°zmir when she was four and-a-half-months pregnant, has reportedly suffered an anxiety attack in prison after...

İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands mayor reveals new plan to prohibit horse-drawn carriages

The municipality of İstanbul’s Princes’ Islands is determined to completely prohibit horse-drawn carriages, or phaetons, as a new deal with carriage operators is about to be...

President ErdoÄŸan, Ä°stanbul mayor neck-and-neck in latest public approval poll

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are leading neck-and-neck in a public approval survey conducted in December by the MetroPOLL polling company. The...

Marmara University, Erdoğan’s alleged alma mater, gets lion’s share of state funding

The Ä°stanbul-based Marmara University, from where Turkish President Recep ErdoÄŸan allegedly graduated, was given the largest amount of state funds among other universities in 2019, Turkish media...

Ministry: 3 Turkish soldiers killed in attack in northern Syria

Turkey’s Defense Ministry has announced that three Turkish soldiers were killed by a car bomb in northern Syria, where Turkey has been conducting a military operation...

AKP, MHP reject motion to grant ‘house of worship’ status to cemevis in İstanbul

Members of the Ä°stanbul City Council from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) have voted against a motion that...

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