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Death toll in İstanbul bombings rises to 46

With the death of wounded police officer Muammer Nacakoğlu on Wednesday, the total number of victims in a twin bomb attack in İstanbul on...

Number of Turkish soldiers killed in Syria rises to 43 with latest loss

One Turkish soldier has died and four others were injured in an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Syria’s al-Bab...

Investigation launched into muhtar for refusing to attend meeting at Erdoğan’s palace

A muhtar, or a neighborhood head, in the Vakfıkebir district of Trabzon province is facing an investigation because he has refused to attend regular...

80-year-old arrested over links to PKK after 24 days in detention

Hacı İsa Sezek, an 80-year-old Turk who spent 24 days in police custody in Siirt province, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of “membership...

[OPINION] How Erdoğan empowered jihadists from China

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish Islamist ruler’s secret policy of facilitating the movement of jihadists from the Uyghurs of Chinese nationality into Syria since 2011 to...

[UPDATE] Journalist Hakan to lead Doğan Group’s Kanal D

One of the largest media groups in Turkey, the Doğan Media Group, has announced that journalist Ahmet Hakan has been appointed as the head...

[UPDATE] Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy released after brief detention

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy Ziya Pir,who was detained by the Turkish police on Tuesday on the grounds that he did not...

14 people detained in connection to nightclub attack in İstanbul

The number of people who have been detained in connection to an attack on a nightclub in İstanbul in the early hours of New...

18 including district mayor in Van detained in terror probe

Eighteen people including the district mayor of the Çatak Municipality in the eastern province of Van were detained on Tuesday as part of a...

Turkish army says 18 ISIL militants killed in clashes in Syria

Eighteen Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were killed and 37 others were wounded in clashes and artillery fire on Monday,...

22 academics dismissed from R. T. Erdoğan University over coup charges

Twenty-two academics were dismissed from the Rize-based Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University’s medical faculty as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the...

Turkish LGBTI activist arrested for social media posts

Uğur Büber, a 23-year-old LGBTI activist who was detained by police on Dec. 27, was arrested by a Turkish court and sent to the...

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