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10 soldiers, 8 civilians killed in PKK attack in Hakkari

Eighteen people including 10 Turkish soldiers were killed, 27 others were injured when Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists attacked a military outpost in Şemdinli...

Three military attachés arrested over alleged Gülen-links

An Ankara court ruled on arrest of three military attaches over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding...

Newly released journalist says tortured with molten plastic during detention

Police officers reportedly tortured Adnan Kümek, a reporter for the government-targeted Azadiya Welat newspaper, by dripping molten plastic on his legs during the two...

İstanbul’s historic Grand Bazaar sees shops close as tourism slumps

At least 600 shops out of 3,600 have closed in İstanbul’s historic Grand Bazaar as tourism slumped significantly this summer after Turkey experienced a...

Turkey blocks access to Dropbox, Google Drive

Turkey has blocked access to Dropbox and restricted Google Drive, file sharing services popular on mobile phones and computers, after Energy Minister Berat Albayrak’s...

Israeli energy minister to meet Turkish counterpart in İstanbul

Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz will meet with his Turkish counterpart, Berat Albayrak, in İstanbul next week at the World Congress on Energy, in...

Turkish justice minister sees US extradition of Gülen as unlikely

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has that the impression is growing in Turkey that the US will ultimately not extradite US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah...

AKP official: Let sacked public servants eat tree roots

The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Isparta branch head, Osman Zabun, has said the civil servants who have recently been dismissed from state institutions...

Police fire kills 4 in family feud in Kurdish town of Yüksekova

In a controversial incident that took place in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari province, four people were killed by police gunfire on Saturday amid...

Domestic violence kills 166 women in last 9 months

  The number of women killed in incidents of domestic violence in the last 9 months across Turkey has risen to 166 with the murder...

Deputy claims Erdoğan prevented medical treatment of Kyrgyz president in Turkey

  Kyrgyz deputy Omurbek Tekebayev has claimed in parliament that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevented the provision of medical treatment to Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev...

Pro-government paper claims with photoshopped image that Gülen has Vatican passport

    In one more of a series of fabricated reports, the pro-government Takvim newspaper ran a lead story on Saturday claiming that Muslim scholar Fethullah...

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