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Interior Ministry responds to AI report: Measures in Sur ‘legitimate and proportionate’

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has responded to a report by Amnesty International on tens of thousands of residents who were forced to leave their homes...

[VIDEO] Police attempt to detain university students singing ‘Say No in Referendum’ song

Police officers attempted to detain university students who sang a song on a ferry criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's authoritarian policies and calling on...

Retired on disability, former bomb disposal expert kept in jail for a month over Gülen links

Bilal Konakçı, a former bomb disposal expert for the İzmir Police Department who was retired after he lost his right hand and both eyes...

Kidnapped Turkish school students, staff in Nigeria rescued

Five students and three staff members from a Nigerian-Turkish school in Ogun State have been rescued, police said Tuesday. A hostel manager, a cook, a...

Gov’t-backed mayor removes Armenian greeting from town sign

The new mayor of the Edremit district of Van province, who was recently appointed by the Turkish government in place of the democratically elected...

Former Turkish officer at NATO: Coup attempt was never meant to succeed

A former Turkish officer who served at NATO headquarters in Brussels but was sacked and recalled to Turkey as part of an investigation into...

Prosecutor seeks 15 years for academics over Gülen links

An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded a 15-year sentence for each of 83 academics from Yıldız Technical University for alleged membership in the Gülen movement,...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s hatred of Yazidis takes a toll in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The deep hostility harbored by Turkey’s Islamist rulers against non-Muslims has reached a point of blind hatred that often rears its ugly...

District governor appointed as trustee to Doğubayazıt Municipality

The Turkish Interior Ministry appointed a trustee to the Doğubayazıt Municipality of eastern Ağrı province on Tuesday, following the detention of Mayor Rohat Özbay...

Court releases 43 Air Force Academy students accused of coup involvement

An Ankara court on Tuesday released from pretrial detention 43 students of the Air Force Academy who were arrested on charges of involvement in...

Italy drops money laundering probe into Erdoğan’s son

An Italian judge dropped a money laundering investigation into President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal when the complainant, Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan, failed to...

Turkey, Russia, Iran to create cease-fire audit mechanism

Turkey, Russia and Iran agreed on Tuesday at peace talks in Astana to create a mechanism to audit the implementation of the cease-fire in...

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