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Turkey orders detention of 174 more Gülen followers in post-coup crackdown

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 174 suspects in two separate investigations into the faith-based Gülen movement, part of a...

More than 6,000 Syrians removed from İstanbul since July: report

Turkey has sent more than 6,000 Syrian migrants in İstanbul to temporary housing centers in other provinces since early July, the local governor’s office said on...

Turkey arrests 4 more Kurdish mayors in Southeast

In a widening crackdown on elected mayors from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkish police teams on Friday detained four district mayors in the country’s...

Yet another Turkish family dies by cyanide poisoning

A family of three, including a child, has been found dead in their apartment in the Bakırköy district of İstanbul in an apparent murder-suicide, the Turkish...

Court rejects journalist Altan’s objection to his re-arrest

A high criminal court in İstanbul has rejected an objection filed by the lawyer of prominent Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan to his re-arrest one...

Police detain 52 suspects including HDP politicians in Turkey’s Southeast

The Gaziantep Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday said police have detained 52 suspects, including a co-chair of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Gaziantep branch,...

[UPDATE] 3 journalists, father whose daughter died under suspicious circumstances, released

Three journalists and Şaban Vatan, whose 11-year-old daughter, Rabia Naz Vatan, died under suspicious circumstances last year, were released on judicial probation on Thursday evening, according to...

Former President Gül not to join Babacan’s new party: report

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül will not accept a position in a new party that will be established by former Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan but...

Mother calls for lifting of travel ban to seek treatment for son’s cancer abroad

Thirty-three-year-old Zekiye Ataç has called on Turkish authorities to revoke a travel ban imposed on her due to her alleged links to the Gülen...

Turkey removes 4 more Kurdish mayors: report

Turkey removed four more mayors on Wednesday as part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), bringing to 20 the number...

Top court issues landmark ruling in case of person imprisoned over Gülen links

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has issued a landmark decision in the case of a person who was sentenced to prison due to alleged links to...

Int’l organizations shocked by Altan’s re-arrest, call for his release

Several international organizations have expressed outrage over the Tuesday re-arrest of well-known Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan, 69, one week after his release from prison. Altan’s...

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