Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen
Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...
YSK announces opposition İYİ Party excluded from Turkey’s snap elections
Turkey's Higher Board of Elections (YSK) has sent a letter to the Justice Ministry saying that the recently established İYİ Party cannot participate in...
Turkish gov’t seizes assets of former CHP deputy Erdemir over Zarrab case
An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled to seize the assets of former main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Aykan Erdemir after an arrest...
Turkish gov’t planning to dismiss 3,000 more military officers over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday said the government has identified 3,000 active duty military officers suspected of links to the Gülen movement...
Pro-Kurdish HDP: Turkish government jails 4,500 party members in 2 years
Turkish government has detained about 11,000 pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) members in the last two years and put 4,500 of them in prison,...
Turkish state news agency shows S-400 capacity to down US, NATO planes
Amid tension between Turkey and NATO over a Turkish decision to buy a Russian S-400 missile system, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu on Wednesday...
Another appeal against Booking.com ban rejected by Turkish court
A Turkish court of appeals has rejected a renewed appeal filed by Dutch-based online hotel booking platform Booking.com against a ban on its activities...
Turks’ asylum applications in Germany up 12.3 pct in first two months of 2024
Turkish nationals filed 12.3 percent more applications for asylum in Germany in the first two months of 2024 than the number submitted in the...
Coup suspect colonel says he received order from Gen. Aksakallı to act against a...
One of the suspects in an ongoing trial into a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 Col. Fırat Alakuş, has said he received...
Four ODTÜ students arrested over placard ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
An Ankara court on Wednesday arrested four students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by carrying...
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