23 suspects sentenced to life imprisonment in 1st verdict of Turkey’s controversial coup trial
Twenty-three suspects have been sentenced to life imprisonment over alleged involvement in controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
It was reported that Ankara's 13th...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish journalists call for assassination of Gülen followers abroad
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Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, who are staunch supporters of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made a call on Thursday for the...
Kurdish villagers who were severely tortured in Turkey turn out to be innocent
Three suspects who were severely tortured in the police station for their alleged involvement in mortar attack against police building in the town of...
77-year jail sentence sought for Turkish businessman İpek over alleged Gülen ties
An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office as a result of an investigation against the Koza-İpek Holding seeks a jail sentence...
Turkey Purge: 1601 people detained, 895 people jailed over alleged Gülen links across Turkey...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Leftist actor Atay released after brief detention in Turkey’s Muğla province
Turkish actor Barış Atay who was detained by gendarmerie forces in the Dalyan district of Muğla on Wednesday night, was released on Thursday after...
Erdoğan’s bodyguards to be charged in attacks at Turkish ambassador’s DC residence
Criminal charges will be announced against 12 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, accused by authorities of attacking protesters outside...
Ex-advisor of Turkey’s former first lady arrested over alleged Gülen links
Ayşe Yılmaz, who served as an advisor to former first lady Hayrünnisa Gül, was arrested on Thursday upon a request by the Ankara Chief...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP begins ‘march of justice’ in protest of deputy’s arrest
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday kicked off a “march of justice” from Turkey’s capital Ankara to İstanbul in protest of...
2 Turks arrested in US for attack outside Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C.
Two Turkish men resident in the United States have been arrested by US Marshals for their role in the beating of protesters outside the...
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