Turkish gov’t detains at least 70 people, mostly on-duty military officers, over alleged links...
Turkish government has detained at least 70 people, including on-duty military officers across the country on Wednesday morning over their alleged links to Gülen movement...
Turkish gov’t purges more than 22,000 from police force following coup attempt
Yılmaz Çolak, president of Turkey’s Police Academy, said on Friday that more than 22,000 police officers had been dismissed from the job as part...
Turkey’s spy agency forcibly returns Gülen’s nephew from Kenya
Turkish spies have arrested and brought back to Turkey a nephew living in Kenya of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is accused by the...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP member arrested over dollar comment on social media
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) member İdris İlhan was arrested on Thursday on charges of disseminating the propaganda of terrorist organizations and opposing...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Erdoğan enlists Tuaregs in his proxy battle
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who helped destabilize Syria by supporting al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria including the al-Nusra Front has been courting...
Brig. Gen. Evrim says July 15 coup attempt in Turkey was planned to fail
Brig. Gen. Hakan Evrim, a suspect in the July 15 coup attempt trial and commander of Akıncı Airbase, where Chief of General Staff Gen....
Six former Turkish national football team stars indicted over alleged Gülen links
An indictment seeking from 7 to 15 years in prison for six former Turkish footballers over links to the Gülen movement was accepted by...
9-year-old Turkish girl drowns while trying to cross Evros River
Nine-year-old Nurefşan Teke drowned on Thursday while trying to cross the Evros River with her mother Neslihan in order to reunite with her father,...
Turkish President Erdoğan reiterates ‘sooner or later we will get Fethullah Gülen’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Tuesday that US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen would be brought to Turkey "sooner or later."
Speaking at...
Exiled novelist Aslı Erdoğan: Turkey has a fascist regime like 1930s Germany
Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, living in exile in Germany as she risks a life sentence on terror charges at home, thinks the writing is...
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