Turkish gov’t says operations targeting Gülen movement could extend to US
Turkey’s presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın said during a press conference on Friday that the Turkish government would continue its global manhunt for followers of...
Suspect caught in murder of Syrian activist and journalist daughter in Turkey
A suspect in the murder of Syrian opposition activist Orouba Barakat and her 22-year-old journalist daughter Halla Barakat in İstanbul was caught on Saturday...
Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens main opposition leader with trial over links to jailed deputy
Turkey's autocratic President and the Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday implied that main opposition Republican...
Staff of Turkey’s state-run TRT briefly detained in Greece
Staff members of Turkey's public TV broadcaster TRT were briefly detained in the Greek city of Alexandroupolis late Saturday.
According to a report by Turkey's...
Turkish gov’t investigates all members of CHP party assembly over Erdoğan’s complaint
Turkish government has launched a legal investigation about 60 members of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Gülen’s Turkish sympathizer stabbed by pro-Erdoğan relative in Belgium
İbrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gülen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a...
Turkish appeals court sentences 78-year-old man to 7 years for insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish appeals court has reversed a lower court sentence of eight years, two months in prison for 78-year-old Ali Ergin Güran and handed...
Fethullah Gülen’s lawyers: Gülen movement has no link with Zarrab case in US
The lawyers of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen said on Tuesday that the Gülen movement has no link to the case of Iranian-Turkish businessman...
Turkey’s official Friday sermon glorifies ‘armed jihad’
A sermon sent to Turkey’s 90,000 mosques for Friday prayers by Turkish state religious authorities took as its theme the importance of jihad. “Engaging in...
Turkish journalist Kılıç in prison for 17 months like exactly told in quotes he...
“Would you tell me, if a president commits a secret crime, or a member of the army tortures, how would we know them? What...
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