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Altan’s lawyers: Stories of ‘evidence’ in Turkish media are distorted

  Following news stories that appeared in the Turkish media on Tuesday reporting on “evidence” of the Gülen movement affiliation of detained columnist Professor Mehmet...

Court dismisses compensation case filed by Gülen against Erdoğan

An Ankara court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit for damages filed by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen against the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip...

45 students sentenced to 10 months for Erdoğan protest

Forty-five students at Middle East Technical University received 10-month jail sentences for participating in a protest while then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was visiting...

Syria, Iraq cross-border motion sent to Parliament for approval

A motion seeking to extend the mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces to conduct military operations in Iraq and Syria for another year has...

48 detained as anti-Gülen operations extend to PETKİM, KOSGEB

Forty-eight people were detained in police operations targeting Turkey’s biggest petrochemicals company, PETKİM, and the Small and Medium Industry Development Organization (KOSGEB) on Tuesday...

HDP Co-chair Demirtaş calls on gov’t, PKK to silence weapons

Co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has called on the Turkish government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to...

Erdoğan says emergency rule may be extended for another 3 months

Amid widespread criticism of rights violations during Turkey’s emergency rule, which went into effect in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...

Kılıçdaroğlu calls for removal of wreckage in Parliament caused by July 15 bombings

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called on the Turkish government to remove the wreckage in the Parliament building caused...

51 arrested, 41 others detained over coup charges on Monday

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...

Number of purge victims exceeds 1 million, CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu says

The number of people affected by the Turkish government’s crackdown on the Gülen movement has already surpassed 1 million, main opposition Republican People’s Party...

Erdoğan asks the US ‘not to harbor’ Gülen in effort to expand witch-hunt

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said during an interview on Monday that the United States should not harbor US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who...

At least 12 die in airstrikes on aid trucks near Aleppo, SOHR says

At least 12 people died after Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed aid trucks near Aleppo late on Monday after a week-long cease-fire ended, the...

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