Turkish election board refuses to allow Demirtaş to participate in political TV show by...

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday refused a request by Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to...

Lawyer faces defamation trial after strip-search claim

Betül Alpay, a Turkish lawyer, is facing a defamation trial after publicly claiming she was subjected to an unlawful strip-search in a prison, the...

Former imam who was a victim of post-coup purge succumbs to cancer

Hasan Akdemir, a former imam who in 2017 was fired from Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in a government purge of supposed “terrorists”...

Turkey plunges from 66th to 75th place in TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2016

Global watchdog Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 on Wednesday in which Turkey plunged to 75th from 66th place among 176...

69-year-old Turkish cartoonist to serve 14 months in prison for insulting Erdoğan

Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe, 69, has been arrested after a jail sentence he was given on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...

Int’l rights groups call on CoE to urge Turkey implement ECtHR ruling on teacher

A number of rights organizations in Europe have in a letter called on the Council of Europe to urge the Turkish government to abide...

Businessman who went missing in Azerbaijan rendered to Turkey by MİT

Uğur Demirok, a Turkish businessman who went missing in Azerbaijan on Sept. 6, was abducted and illegally brought to Turkey by the National Intelligence...

COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s creeping radical Islamist projects in Macedonia

By Abdullah Bozkurt Macedonia has been targeted by a hostile Islamist agenda discreetly pursued by the government of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who...

Turkish prosecutor launches probe into FOX TV anchor over critical report on Mersin hospital

A Turkish public prosecutor’s office in İstanbul has launched an investigation into prominent news anchor Fatih Portakal, who presents FOX TV news, due to...

5 arrested in connection to murder of 15-year-old Syrian in İstanbul

Turkish authorities have arrested five suspects in connection with the murder of a 15-year-old Syrian, who was shot dead by masked gunmen in İstanbul last week,...
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