Pro-Kurdish reporter Sur briefly detained by anti-terror police in İzmir airport

Sedat Sur, a reporter of the Fırat News Agency which is affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has been detained on his arrival...

Erdoğan says state of emergency to be extended when expires

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a state of emergency which went into effect in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt...

Turkish academic Koray Çalışkan put under house arrest

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been...

Survey shows Turkish gov’t seized at least $11 billion of company assets over Gülen...

The Turkish government has transferred some TL 49,4 billion ($11 billion) in assets of 1,124 companies seized for alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement...

173 women killed in violence against women in 5 months in Turkey

According to a report released by a Turkish women’s rights activist organization Monday, a total of 173 women were killed by men in the...

6 people trying to flee persecution in Turkey detained by police

Turkish police detained six people, including two children, in Kırklareli province on Saturday over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as they were reportedly...

Turkish PM Yıldırım says the government to extend emergency rule

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced on Friday that Turkish government is planning to extend the state of emergency on July 18 after...

COMMENTARY — What to expect from Turkey’s elections

By Abdullah Bozkurt In the upcoming June 24 presidential and parliamentary snap elections, I have little hope that the opposition will score a win in...

OSCE’s Désir questions media freedom in Turkey 49 times in 8 months

Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has made 13 statements, posted 31...

Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence

A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including the one on Jesus Christ have been...

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