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Ä°stanbul apprehends 12,474 irregular migrants in 19 days

The İstanbul Governor’s Office on Thursday released a statement on migration, announcing that a total of 12,474 illegal migrants were apprehended and sent to processing centers between...

Turkey destroys over 300,000 Gülen-affiliated books from public libraries

Turkey’s Education Ministry on Thursday announced that 301,878 books published by faith-based Gülen movement followers or Gülen-linked publishing houses have been collected from public libraries and...

Turkey hands vast powers to broadcasting watchdog to monitor Internet

Turkey has issued new regulations in the Official Gazette authorizing the country’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to exercise vast powers over Internet broadcasting, including...

Bosnia rejects Turkey’s extradition request for journalist over Gülen links

The Justice Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina has put an end to Turkey’s persistent efforts to have a journalist living exile extradited to Turkey on trumped-up...

Turkey’s top court rules violation occurred in denial of jailed spouses’ visitation rights

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that there has been a violation of the right to respect for family life in the case of two jailed spouses...

Turkey’s Demirören Media to be sold to Turkuvaz-Azerbaijani partnership: report

A partnership between pro-Turkish-government media group Turkuvaz and the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will purchase the Demirören Media Group, according to a report...

Elderly woman whose husband is in jail over Gülen links forced to vacate home

A district governor’s office in the western province of İzmir has ordered an elderly woman whose 80-year-old husband is in prison due to his links to...

Editor of gov’t-critical newspaper detained on insult charges

Ali Avcu, the editor-in-chief of the Yurt daily, which is highly critical of the Turkish government, was detained on Tuesday evening on insult charges in the northwestern...

Purged teacher tells of torture, sexual abuse in police detention

A teacher who was removed from his job and subsequently arrested due to his alleged links to the Gülen  movement in the aftermath of a failed coup...

Ä°stanbul police apprehend 40 irregular migrants after anonymous tips

Police teams in İstanbul’s Avcılar district located 40 migrants who entered Turkey illegally, based largely on reports by anonymous informants. After a series of raids on targeted...

Families suspect abducted Gülen followers subjected to torture

Families of four Gülen followers who appeared in police custody after being missing since February revealed that their loved ones might have been subjected to torture,...

Lyon university professor accused of terrorist propaganda released pending trial

Tuna Altınel, a Lyon University professor of mathematics who was accused of disseminating terrorist propaganda, was released pending trial on Tuesday by a court in Balıkesir...

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