Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen: Zaman daily has no ties with terrorism
Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen (52), a night-shift editor at Zaman newspaper, one-time Turkey’s largest circulated newspaper before the government unlawful takeover and closure...
Turkey’s ex-VP says journalist who accused him of accepting $50 mln in bribes is...
Fuat Oktay, Turkey’s former vice president and current ruling party MP, on Wednesday denied allegations that he received $50 million in bribes from a...
Turkish gov’t detains 492 people over links to Gülen movement last week
The Turkish government detained a total of 492 people last week (June 4-June 11) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
Diyarbakır Co-mayor Anlı faces arrest shortly after his release from jail
An arrest warrant has been issued for Diyarbakır Co-mayor Fırat Anlı, who was released from jail last week, after being arrested on terror charges...
Turkey’s İYİ Party gives ‘Kim Jong-un press freedom award’ to public broadcaster TRT
In a move to protest the state-run Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), which has been criticized for acting as the mouthpiece of Turkey’s ruling...
Turkey plunges from 101st to 115th place in TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2023
Turkey has taken 14 steps back and was ranked 115th among 180 countries with a score of 34 out of 100, the lowest in...
Speech by presidential candidate of Turkey’s main opposition party banned by court
An İstanbul court has ordered the censorship of Internet sites that quoted a campaign rally speech given by Muharrem İnce, the presidential candidate of Turkey's...
Turkey arrests teacher over ByLock use despite ECtHR judgment
Turkish authorities have arrested former teacher Güler Çetinkaya due to her alleged use of the ByLock mobile messaging app despite a landmark European Court...
18 students, 3 teachers detained during Turkish police raid on prep school over Gülen...
Twenty-one people were detained in a Friday police raid on a prep school established by teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs by...
Erdoğan says Fethullah Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as...
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