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Turkish minister orders Erdoğan portrait hung in official buildings

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has ordered all institutions under the authority of his ministry to hang a portrait of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Housing, employment, language biggest challenges for Syrian women in Turkey

The main problems Syrian women in Turkey face are access to better housing, language and access to employment opportunities, the Hürriyet Daily News reported,...

Turkish interior minister says terrorists are exploiting Saturday Mothers

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Monday defended a police intervention in the 700th meeting of the Saturday Mothers in İstanbul, saying that they...

351 migrants stopped by Turkish security forces on their way to Europe

A total of 351 irregular migrants were apprehended across Turkey on Monday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, citing security sources. Coast Guard units in...

23 people detained in past week over Gülen links

A total of 23 people have been detained in the past week as part of a crackdown targeting alleged members of the faith-based Gülen...

German journalist released by Turkey unable to rejoice as hundreds remain imprisoned

German journalist Meşale Tolu has returned to Germany with her three-and-a-half-year-old son after a travel ban imposed on her was lifted on Aug. 20...

Kılıçdaroğlu slams police violence against the Saturday Mothers

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Sunday said that only a dictatorial administration would order a police attack on the Saturday Mothers,...

Erdoğan says the target is not himself but Turkey, Islam

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday called on people to be alert to foreign plots including the currency crisis, underlining that the target...

MHP’s controversial general amnesty bill is ready: report

Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has drafted an eight-article parliamentary motion for a general amnesty that will be proposed in October despite the explicit...

700th gathering of Saturday Mothers marred by police violence, detentions

The Saturday Mothers, who gather every Saturday to bring attention to the cases of people who disappeared while in custody in the 1990s, would...

Peace declaration academic becomes construction worker after dismissal from job

Orhan Kaya, an academic who was removed from his post at a Turkish university by the government for signing a peace declaration in early...

69-year-old professor convicted of Gülen links dies in prison

Professor Sabri Çolak, 69, who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 due to alleged...

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