COMMENTARY — What to expect from Turkey’s elections
By Abdullah Bozkurt
In the upcoming June 24 presidential and parliamentary snap elections, I have little hope that the opposition will score a win in...
15 detained over alleged Gülen links in İstanbul-based investigation
Fifteen people were detained on Wednesday in an İstanbul-based operation for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by the government...
73-year-old inmate dies of cancer shortly after his release
Ehettin Kaynar, 73, succumbed to cancer on Sunday in eastern Turkey's Iğdır province, two months after he was belatedly released from prison despite his...
US refuses Turkey permission to use Pakistani pilots for training Turkish F-16 pilots
The US has rejected a Turkish proposal to use Pakistani pilots for training Turkish pilots for F-16 fighters, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday,...
Turkish Red Crescent sold second-hand items donated to it, journalist reveals
The Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), Turkey’s top charity organization, which is at the center of controversy for selling tents to another charity rather than...
Kurdish politicians including HDP co-chair to go on hunger strike in protest of prison...
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Hakkari deputy Abdullah Zeydan and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel will go on...
More illegal arms imported from Turkey seized in Nigeria
Less than two weeks after operatives of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, busted a syndicate that smuggled over 1,000...
7.5 years jail time sought for teacher over comments during live talk show
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks up to a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik on charges of “promoting terrorist organization...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 33 more military officers over alleged Gülen links
The Aydın Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 33 more military personnel as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen...
Turkish imam in Australia mobilizes worshippers to spy on Gülen movement
Süleyman Arslan, a member of the board of the Ankara-funded Süleymaniye Mosque in the Australian city of Perth, was revealed to have incited worshipers...
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