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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...

Number of detainees in US Embassy attack investigation rises to 5

Three more people have been detained as part of an investigation into the firing of gunshots at the US Embassy in Ankara on Monday,...

MHP to propose general amnesty bill in October

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Chairman Mustafa Kalaycı has said one of the first bills to be proposed in parliament after the summer break...

Currency crisis hits publishing industry in Turkey

A sharp decline in the value of the Turkish lira has led to a crisis in the publishing sector since Turkey imports almost all...

More than 3,000 Turkish nationals apply for asylum in Greece in last 2 years

A total of 3,189 Turkish nationals have arrived in Greece and applied for asylum in the last two years, according to the Demirören news...

Former HDP deputy flees Turkey to escape persecution

Former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Birlik, on who a travel ban was imposed by a Turkish court, has fled to Greece and...

Saturday Mothers to meet for 700th time to seek justice for disappeared loved ones

The Saturday Mothers, a group demanding justice for loved ones who disappeared while in custody in Turkey in the ’90s, will gather for the...

Another coup attempt ‘hero’ dismissed by government decree

A colonel who was hailed as a hero for standing up to a failed coup attempt in 2016 was dismissed from the Turkish Armed...

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