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Turkey completes half of wall on Iranian border

Turkey has completed construction of half of a 144-kilometer-long wall along its border with Iran in order to stop illegal crossings, the state-run Anadolu...

Turkey detains 75 as court releases top ISIL suspect

Turkish police have arrested at least 75 people over suspected links to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Ankara and...

Hero of July 2016 coup attempt says linked to Gülen movement

A Turkish officer who was declared one of the heroes in thwarting a coup attempt on July 15, 2016 has reportedly admitted that he...

ErdoÄŸan sues CHP leader for TL 250,000 in non-pecuniary damages

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday filed a lawsuit against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for TL 250,000 in...

14 more military personnel detained over alleged links to Gülen movement

Fourteen Turkish military personnel were detained on Thursday as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, CNN Türk reported. Police detained 14 suspects...

Erdoğan rebukes former President Gül for decree remarks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has scolded former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a new state of emergency...

Report: Turkey killed 1,190 PKK members in 2017

A total of 1,190 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in 2017, according to information gathered from Turkish Interior...

Prosecutor’s office says 11,500 mistakenly investigated for ByLock use

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday stated that 11,480 GSM users were found to have been involuntarily directed to mobile phone application...

Detention warrants issued for 171 Fatih University staff members, academics

Detention warrants have been issued for 171 academics and other staff members of Fatih University, which was seized and closed by the government last...

PM says controversial gov’t decree will not be revised

Amid growing reactions from opposition and human rights defenders, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Wednesday said they will not revise a new state of...

AKP executive says ErdoÄŸan sent by God as a hope for Muslims

  Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) executive Belma ErdoÄŸan said on Tuesday that Turkish President and AKP Chairman Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan is a great...

Judges who released Korkmaz in 2015 purged from positions

Two judges who in 2015 released Hüseyin Korkmaz, a former İstanbul police officer who testified at the New York trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla,...

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