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Police detain 6 members of Boydak family due to Bank Asya account

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained six members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, on the grounds...

Altans’ lawyer tells judges ignoring top court’s ruling could lead to expulsion from post

Ergin Cinmen, a lawyer representing prominent journalists Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, has told judges hearing the trial of his clients to comply with...

HDP’s Demirtaş says in his defense case against him is politically motivated

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), began delivering his defense in court on Wednesday, saying the case against...

Zaman employee says facing life sentence due to a TV commercial

Zaman brand marketing manager Yakup Şimşek has said he is facing a life sentence because of a TV commercial run by his paper which...

Turkish PM says he hopes German journalist Yücel will soon be released

On the first anniversary of the arrest of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel last February, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said he hopes Yücel...

CHP deputy Berberoğlu sentenced to 5 years, 10 months in MİT truck case

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Enis Berberoğlu was sentenced on Tuesday to five years, 10 months in prison for leaking classified material...

Erdoğan bashes former chief of general staff over Afrin remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday lambasted former Chief of General Staff İlker Başbuğ over remarks on a military operation in the Afrin...

HDP’s former co-chairperson detained in Ankara

Serpil Kemalbay, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), was detained in Ankara on Tuesday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to...

Judge tells prominent journalist to stop Erdoğan criticism at coup trial

A judge hearing the trial of seven journalists including Nazlı Ilıcak and the Altan brothers, who are being tried on coup charges, has intervened...

Archbishop Bekçiyan decides to leave Turkey over patriarch election row

Archbishop Karekin Bekçiyan, the primate of the Armenian diocese of Germany who was elected last March as “degabah,” or trustee to officially launch and...

Widow of slain general says July 15 shrouded in mystery, facts should come out

The widow of Brig. Gen. Semih Terzi, Nazire, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday, has said the night of a...

Journalist recounts flight from post-coup crackdown in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt, the former Ankara bureau chief of the closed-down Today’s Zaman daily who now lives in exile in Sweden, recounts in an interview...

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