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Turkey recalls spying religious attaché from Netherlands

The Turkish government has recalled Yusuf Acar, the religious attaché of the Turkish government in the Netherlands, who recently admitted to spying on followers...

8 including Uşak University rector detained over Gülen links

Eight people including the rector of Uşak University, Professor Sait Çelik, have been detained as part of an investigation targeting alleged followers of the...

Police release 6 detained in connection to murder of Russian envoy

Six people who were detained in relation to the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov on Monday were released on Thursday. A 22-year-old...

Erdoğan hosts Aleppo child Bana as Turkey aligns with Russia on Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday hosted a 7-year-old Syrian girl, Bana al-Abed, whose mother ran a Twitter account in her name about...

Leaked coup commission report suggests reorganizing MİT, working against Gülen abroad

A recently leaked report drafted by the parliamentary coup commission established to investigate a July 15 coup attempt suggested that the government reorganize Turkey's...

Erdoğan contradicts Kremlin remarks on murderer of ambassador

In an open challenge to Moscow's statement that it is too early to say who masterminded the murder of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei...

Hürriyet’s Zeyrek replaced after assassination remarks

The Hürriyet daily’s Ankara representative, Deniz Zeyrek, was replaced on Wednesday by the Ankara bureau chief of CNN Türk, Hande Fırat, who aired a...

2,000 more Education Ministry personnel suspended

The Turkish Ministry of Education suspended 1,980 staff members including teachers as part of a witch-hunt targeting the Gülen movement, which the government accuses...

3 more DBP mayors arrested on terror charges

Three district mayors from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in the eastern province of Bitlis who were detained on Dec. 14 as part...

Kremlin says ambassador’s killing blow to Turkey’s prestige

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the murder of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov by a gunman in Ankara on Monday evening is...

Group encompassing al-Nusra reportedly claims responsibility for Russian envoy murder

Jaish al-Fatah, an umbrella organization that encompasses the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, has reportedly claimed responsibility for the murder of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov by...

3 detained at Islamic University of Europe over corruption charges

Three senior administrators at the Islamic University of Europe in Rotterdam have been detained on allegations of forgery, fraud and money laundering. The Fiscal Information...

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