Greece seizes Libya-bound ship carrying explosive materials loaded in Turkish ports
Greek authorities have seized a Tanzanian-flagged ship heading for Libya and carrying materials, which have been loaded in Turkey's İskenderun and Mersin ports, used...
Turkish nationalist group prays at İstanbul’s Hagia Sophia amid Jerusalem tension
Amid tension due to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Dec. 6, members of the Alperen Ocakları, an offshoot...
Turkish gov’t transfers Lice co-mayor Zuğurli from Diyarbakır Prison to Van Prison with her...
Imprisoned Lice Co-mayor Rezan Zuğurli, who has been jailed since August 17, 2017, was reportedly transferred from Diyarbakır E Type Prison to Van T...
Civil servant purged by Turkish gov’t abducted in Ankara, says parent
Orçun Şenyücel, a former public employee who was dismissed from his job at the Competition Authority in 2016, has been abducted by an unknown...
Turkish gov’t detains retired Col. Cihangiroğlu, a defendant in MİT trucks case
Retired Col. Burhanettin Cihangiroğlu, former head of the Gendarmerie’s criminal department and a defendant in a trial concerning the halting of Turkey's notorious National...
Erdoğanist Turkish journalist calls on youths to besiege US Embassy in Ankara
Radical Islamist Turkish journalist Adem Özköse, known as a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called on all Turkish youths to...
US says ISIL’s Mosul financial emir al-Mansur lives in Turkey
The US Department of the Treasury said Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) financial emir for the Iraqi city of Mosul Salim...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s ultra-nationalist ally targets journalists who ‘defamed’ his party
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ultra-nationalist ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ran an advertisement in a number of newspapers...
COMMENTARY — The US State Department is still confused about Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a...
Turkish gov’t hosts group of Pakistani journalists amid Kaçmaz scandal
As questions persist about the abduction of former Pak-Turk school director in Pakistan Mesut Kaçmaz and his family in Lahore last month, Turkey is...
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