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Turkish military to enlist 30,000 new personnel after purge

Amid criticism that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is pushing the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) away from NATO, Defense Minister Fikri Işık...

Minister says 90-95 percent of nation says ‘yes’ to executive presidency

Turkish Minister of Development Lütfi Elvan has said as much as 90 to 95 percent of the Turkish nation approves of a constitutional reform...

MHP’s Bahçeli calls emergency party meeting

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on Saturday called an emergency party meeting as Turkey gets ready to vote in a referendum on...

Report: 2 Syrian refugees registered as voters in Batman

Two Syrian refugees are registered as voters in the southeastern city of Batman, the Evrensel daily reported. According to the report, Mehmet Karabaş came across...

Academic sentenced to 11 months in jail for insulting Erdoğan

Suay Karaman, an academic at the Ankara-based Gazi University and the general secretary of the Association of Academic Staff (TÜMÖD), was sentenced on Friday...

Turkey detains 2 more nephews of US-based scholar Fethullah Gülen

A total of 16 suspects including two nephews of US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen were detained on Friday as part of an investigation into...

Ex-businessman purge victim detained over Gülen links while working in restaurant

Once one of the partners of the İzmir-based private FEM preparation schools, A.D. was detained while working as a takeout packer at a grill...

[UPDATE] CHP’s Türkmen resigns from parliamentary post over high official postage bills

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Elif Doğan Türkmen resigned on Saturday from Parliament’s Presidential Council after mounting reactions over her high official...

Death toll in Kayseri attack rises to 15 with loss of another soldier

The number of soldiers killed in a terrorist attack in the central province of Kayseri last December rose to 15 when one of the...

Germany turns down Turkey’s calls to reject asylum applications of Turkish officers

German authorities have turned down calls from Turkey to reject asylum applications from 40 high-ranking Turkish officers, saying that the officers' applications will be...

Turkey’s annualized inflation hits 9.22 percent in January 2017

Turkey‘s inflation rate increased in January by 2.46 percent over the previous month, with the consumer price index coming in at an annualized 9.22...

33 police officers arrested in operations across Turkey on coup charges

A total of 33 police officers were arrested on Thursday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government blames for a failed...

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