Detained woman, newborn baby transferred to police station 240 km away from home in...

Detained hours after giving birth at a private hospital in İstanbul early on Tuesday, a woman named Ayşe Kaya has been transferred to a...

Police accused of beating 3 brothers after traffic dispute in eastern Turkey

Three brothers in eastern Turkey were detained and beaten by police following a traffic dispute on Wednesday, the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reported. The incident...

İstanbul Municipality changes street names evoking Gülen movement

The İstanbul Municipality on Thursday unanimously approved the renaming of 192 streets across the metropolitan area that may bring to mind the Gülen movement...

Turkey’s Atilla says he has never conspired with Zarrab to evade US sanctions

Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former manager at Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, who is one of nine Turks indicted in the sanctions-evasion scheme but the only one...

Director of coup movie detained after trailer showed Turkey’s Erdoğan threatened with gun

Ali Avcı, the director of a soon-to-be-released movie about a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, has been detained over  his...

Pro-Erdoğan gang leader threatens European countries with violent protests

https://youtu.be/sood3kFnGzA Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in a video that he can organize...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 8 people over alleged exam fraud

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has issued detention warrants for eight alleged members of the Gülen movement for their alleged involvement in police...

3 Kurdish journalists referred to court for arrest, 6 released under judicial supervision

Three out of nine Kurdish journalists who were detained earlier this week have been referred to court for arrest after testifying to a prosecutor...

Turkish prosecutors level new terrorism-related charges against jailed Diyarbakır mayor

Ankara prosecutors have drafted an indictment for Selçuk Mızraklı, the former mayor of the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, for allegedly disseminating terrorist propaganda,...

24 detained over alleged Gülen links, 18 arrested for alleged ByLock use

While a total of 24 people including former police officers, the Scientific as well as employees from the Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK)...
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