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US Embassy Ankara: Visa appointments booked until January 2019

The US Embassy in Ankara tweeted on Tuesday that appointments to secure non-immigrant visas are not available until early 2019 due to a backlog...

Turkish justice minister says Atilla case in New York has already collapsed

Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül on Tuesday said the trial of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive of Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank accused of helping launder...

Erdoğan’s spokesperson slams UAE’s FM for retweet

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesman, İbrahim Kalın, on Tuesday slammed United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan for...

Journalist Yazıcı threatened, put in solitary confinement over ‘letter’

Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, was threatened at police headquarters to admit having carried a letter that was...

HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in police custody

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat Araç...

Human rights group urges foreign gov’ts to ensure safety of Gülen followers

Virginia-based human rights organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) in a piece on HuffPost has called on foreign governments to ensure the safety of...

Erdoğan lawyers ask Twitter to censor 11 Carlos Latuff cartoons

The legal team of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent a court decision to Twitter ordering the censoring of 80 posts including 11...

Detention warrants issued for 106 over Gülen links

The İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 106 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news...

Turkish court releases 6 including German journalist Tolu

An İstanbul court on Monday released German journalist Mesale Tolu along with five others on judicial probation, Cumhuriyet reported. Tolu, who was detained in April...

575 detained in one week over Gülen movement links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 575 people have been detained in one week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement,...

Governor bans commemorative events ahead of Maraş massacre anniversary

The governor of Kahramanmaraş has banned all public events, gatherings and commemorative events days before the 39th anniversary of the Maras massacre. All meetings, demonstrations, marches, rallies,...

Kurdish man dies under suspicious circumstances at Turkish police station

Turkish police claimed on Friday that 24-year-old M.A., who was detained at a checkpoint in Antalya’s Gazipaşa district, committed suicide by jumping from a...

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