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[OPINION] UAE sweep exposes Turkish intelligence links to jihadists in Syria

by Abdullah Bozkurt The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has aided, funded and armed jihadist groups in Syria for years, is troubled by...

25 gendarmerie officers detained over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Saturday detained 25 gendarmerie officers including some who had previously been suspended over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement as...

2 Greek officers arrested for espionage after straying across Turkish border

A court in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne has ordered the arrest of two Greek soldiers who the Greek army claimed "accidentally" crossed onto...

Correspondent decries double standards of int’l press, rights bodies for jailed Turkish journalists

Ahead of the second anniversary of the seizure of the Zaman Media Group by a government led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...

Erdoğan adviser says Muslim decision taken by Germany, not Czechs

Yiğit Bulut, a chief advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on public TV that a decision to release former co-chairperson of the Syrian...

[UPDATE] 8 new Turkish fatalities reported in Afrin operation

Eight Turkish soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in clashes with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in the Afrin region of Syria, the...

[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan sowing the seeds of jihadist ideology among African students

by Abdullah Bozkurt The scary spectacle of how African exchange students who receive their education in Turkey on government scholarships are being indoctrinated in jihadist...

Turkey bans access to critical Ahval news website

The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com as the Turkish government’s crackdown on the...

Interior Ministry: 106,740 guns reported missing in 2017

A total of 106,740 guns were reported to be missing or stolen in 2017, according to a report from the Interior Ministry, raising concerns...

HDP deputy sentenced to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges

A Turkish court in Gaziantep province has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Selma Irmak to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges. The...

Jailed journalist Altan sentenced to additional 6 years on terror-related charges

An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan, who was sentenced by another court to...

Turkish journalist gets 9 years based on anonymous letter alleging terrorism

Vahit Yazgan, the former bureau chief of the shuttered Zaman daily in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, was sentenced to eight years, nine months...

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