Turkey never used Brunson as a bargaining chip, claims Turkish President Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan broke his silence about threats of sanctions made by US President Donald Trump and claimed that Turkey never used...

78-year-old man receives jail sentence for allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdoğan

Seventy-eight-year-old Ali Ergin G. was given a jail sentence of eight years, two months by a Turkish court for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep...

Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkolu, tortured to death in police custody, would be acquitted if...

Forty-two-year-old Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death under police custody in the wake of a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016...
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Turkish gov’t detains 11 military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement

The Turkish government on Friday detained 11 military officers who were dismissed by government decree under a now-ended state of emergency as part of...

Turkish gov’t’s ultranationalist ally: Any Turk who applauds lira’s plunge should lose citizenship

Mustafa Destici, chairman of the Turkish government's ultranationalist ally the Grand Unity Party (BBP), has said people who are pleased with the Turkish lira’s...

Turkish gov’t arrests 50,136, detains 154,694 people over alleged links with Gülen movement since...

Basing on the information taken from Turkey's Justice Ministry, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has reported that 154,694 people have been investigated (detained)...

700th gathering of ‘Saturday Mothers’ marred by Turkish police violence, detentions

The Saturday Mothers, who gather every Saturday to bring attention to the cases of people who disappeared while in custody in the 1990s, would...

9 people trying to flee persecution in Turkey detained at Greek border

Turkish security forces on Wednesday detained nine people in Edirne province near the Greek border over their alleged membership in the Gülen movement as they...

Occupancy rate of Turkish prisons reaches 117 percent

The occupancy rate of Turkish prisons has reached 117 percent, the Sözcü daily reported on Monday. According to recent data released by Turkey’s Justice...

Report: Moldova to grill secret service chiefs over expulsion of Turkish educators

Moldova's Prime Minister Pavel Filip and Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu, both members of the ruling Democratic Party, on Thursday summoned the heads of the...

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