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[UPDATE] US prosecutors seek 20 years for Atilla in sanctions busting case

US prosecutors have asked a New York federal judge to sentence Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla to 20 years in prison for conspiring to...

Professor given 15 months for signing 2016 peace declaration

Professor Füsun Üstel, one of the academics who signed a peace declaration in early 2016 criticizing the Turkish government for its violation of human...

EU says deportation of 6 Turkish nationals from Kosovo against bloc’s key principles

Maja Kocijancic, an EU spokesperson, has slammed the March 29 arrest and deportation of six Turkish nationals from Kosovo due to their links to...

Report: 9 students jailed for protesting Turkish military offensive in Afrin

A Turkish court on Tuesday put nine students in pretrial detention on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda after they protested a military offensive being...

5 Turkish educators working at Gülen schools detained in Gabon, face deportation

Five educators working at schools opened in Gabon by Turkish entrepreneurs inspired by the views of Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen have been detained by...

[OPINION] Ashraf Ghani sold Afghan kids’ future to Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey’s Islamist rulers have succeeded in twisting the arm of the Ashraf Ghani government, which eventually succumbed to pressure from the Turkish president...

Video catches Turkish police brutally beating 2 handcuffed detainees

A video shared by the İHA news agency shows two handcuffed men being beaten by police in the Dikili district of İzmir. The video shows...

Detention warrants issued on Tuesday for 85 over Gülen links

The Konya, Kırşehir and Zonguldak chief public prosecutors’ offices on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 85 people including teachers, lawyers, doctors and military members...

Former TRT journalist Böken gets 9 years, 9 months on terror charges  

Ahmet Böken, a journalist who used to work for public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) and has been behind bars since August 2016,...

Haradinaj to Erdoğan: You do not know Albanians

Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj rebuffed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had strongly criticized Haradinaj for dismissing the interior minister and the secret...

[OPINION] Turkey deals yet another blow to the anti-ISIL battle

by Abdullah Bozkurt The declaration of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh by its Arabic acronym) as a “project...

Washington Post: Erdoğan’s bodyguards should be brought to justice

The Washington Post in an editorial on Sunday said that bodyguards of the Turkish president who were indicted by US prosecutors for an attack...

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