Turkish football club chairman briefly detained in post-coup investigation

Ahmet Şan, the chairman of Turkey’s Atiker Konyaspor football club, was briefly detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the...

Turkish journalist Şen gets years of prison sentence over being relative of major coup...

Journalist Erdal Şen together with Ali Sami Yıldırım, the two relatives of Turkey’s alleged major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, have been handed down a jail sentence of...

Kurdish man picnicking in SE Turkey injured after security forces fire warning shots

Turkish security forces on Wednesday allegedly fired above the heads of a group of Kurdish men having a picnic in an open field in...

Turkish government appoints trustee to Bismil Municipality

Turkish government has appointed a trustee to the Municipality of Bismil district of Diyarbakır province where was under the administration of elected co-mayors from...

Teacher dies after allegedly falling from balcony as police raid home to detain

Gültekin Payat, a 41-year-old teacher with an outstanding arrest warrant issued against him as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the Gülen movement,...

COMMENTARY — Europe braces itself for Erdoğan’s new push for the Turkish diaspora

By Abdullah Bozkurt Ahead of both president and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and their...

3 workers die on government construction site in southeastern Turkey

Three workers lost their lives in an accident on a government construction site in southeastern Urfa province on Friday, while a fourth worker was...

Swedish journalists call on Erdoğan to release jailed author Ahmet Altan

Sixteen journalists in Sweden including the heads of prominent journalism organizations have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take action for the...

Pro-Erdoğan change in Cumhuriyet daily’s board leads to resignations

Following a shakeup in the board of directors of the Cumhuriyet Foundation, the owner of Turkey's opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in cooperation with the Turkish...

15 arrested in bribery, organized crime probe targeting former CHP mayor in Bursa

Fifteen people, including a former district mayor from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), have been arrested in a bribery and organized crime...
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