Turkey detains 12 former police officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish police have detained 12 former police officers over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Kronos news website reported on Tuesday....
Investigation launched into allegations of corruption in Turkey’s judiciary: justice minister
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that an investigation has been launched into allegations of corruption in the judiciary that were recently voiced...
Opposition MP files complaint against vice president for calling purge victims ‘terrorists’
An opposition deputy has filed a complaint against Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay, who recently called the victims of a massive purge of state...
COMMENTARY — Turkey scrambled to contain fallout from Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
It appears Turkey’s intelligence agency, which has long trafficked, armed and supported foreign fighters in the bloody Syrian civil war since 2011...
UN launches probe into deployment of foreign fighters to Libya by Turkish government: report
UN rapporteurs sent a joint letter in June to the Turkish government seeking further information about its role in the recruitment, financing, transportation and deployment...
İstanbul Municipality transfers property worth TL 371 million to pro-gov’t foundation
The İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has transferred public land worth TL 371 million and nine buildings to the pro-government Ensar Foundation, which came to public...
Erdoğan withdraws complaints filed against quake survivors for alleged insult
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has withdrawn the criminal complaints he filed against people living across 11 provinces hit by the last month’s major...
CHP applies to ECtHR demanding cancellation of referendum results in Turkey
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is applying to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for cancellation of the results of a...
Voice of America reporter Arif Aslan arrested in Turkey
Arif Aslan, a correspondent for the Voice of America (VOA) Kurdish service, was arrested today in the eastern Turkish province of Van.
He was following...
Pro-Kurdish HPD delegation’s access to forest fire area in Tunceli prevented by Turkish gov’t
Turkish soldiers barred access to a forest fire area to a delegation of deputies from Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) that had arrived...
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