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58 including air force cadets sentenced to consecutive life sentences

An Ä°stanbul court handed down aggravated life sentences to 23 military members and life sentences to 35 military personnel for attempting to change the...

ErdoÄŸan advisor likens Turkey purge to Aborigine, Native American, Armenian cases

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup era witch-hunt...

Ä°stanbul court again refuses to release journalist Altan

İstanbul’s 26th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a demand for release filed by lawyers representing journalist Mehmet Altan despite a decision by Turkey’s...

Turkish army shells Afrin despite US reaction

The Turkish Armed Forces on Friday hit several Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets in the Afrin area of Syria hours after the US...

HRW: Media, activists, political opposition targeted in Turkey in 2017

Human Rights Watch on Thursday said in its World Report 2018 that Turkey had increased restrictions on the media, the political opposition and human...

Turkey extends state of emergency for sixth time

The Turkish Parliament on Thursday passed a prime ministry motion extending a state of emergency for another three months, the sixth such extension since...

Detention warrants issued for 53 more military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The Sakarya, Konya and Kırıkkale chief public prosecutor’s offices issued detention warrants for 53 military personnel of various ranks in last 24 hours as...

Court rules for release of 33 police officers jailed over ByLock use

An Ä°stanbul high criminal court has ruled for the release of 33 police officers who were arrested for alleged use of a smart phone...

Three killed as military plane crashes in Isparta

Two pilots and a technician lost their lives when a military trainer aircraft crashed on Wednesday in the Yalvaç district of the Isparta province...

BIA report: 237 aggravated life sentences sought for 520 journalists in Turkey

A recently released quarterly report, the BIA Media Monitoring Report, has revealed that 122 journalists were in Turkish jails as of Jan.1, 2018, while...

Worker stages naked protest in front of Turkey’s nat’l employment agency

A man who has not received his salary from his employer for months on Tuesday staged a naked protest in front of the Ä°zmir...

Lawyers for Alpay, Altan say Constitutional Court rulings are binding on all

Lawyers representing imprisoned journalists Mehmet Altan and Åžahin Alpay issued a public statement over the weekend regarding the continued detention of their clients following...

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