Police question jailed İstanbul mayor’s father, son on alleged money laundering
The father and son of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu were questioned by police on Tuesday as suspects in an expanding investigation into alleged...
Turkey orders detention of 54 people, including 35 academics, over alleged Gülen links in...
Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 54 people, including 35 academics, due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, over the course of two...
Minister accuses Kurdish villagers allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers of aiding terrorists: report
Turkey’s interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has claimed that Kurdish villagers Servet Turgut and Osman Şiban, who were allegedly tortured by Turkish security forces in...
Turkey’s planned amnesty to cover only PKK militants: pro-Kurdish party
A lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People’s Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has said the Turkish government, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and...
Turkey arrests 48 for looting, defrauding earthquake victims: state media
Turkish authorities have arrested 48 people for looting or trying to defraud victims after a powerful earthquake hit Turkey, Agence France-Presse reported, citing state...
Bundestag vice president submitted complaint to UNESCO regarding jailed journalist Altan: report
Claudia Roth, vice president of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag), has submitted a communication to UNESCO under a special procedure that it says allows...
Turkey dismissed more than 34,000 teachers over Gülen links after 2016 coup attempt
Turkey dismissed 34,795 teachers over alleged links to the Gülen movement during a state of emergency declared after a 2016 coup attempt, according to...
Turks living abroad relied on social media for earthquake news amid failure of regular...
Turks living outside their home country have relied heavily on social media for news about relatives who were affected by earthquakes that struck southeastern...
Turkish Twitter users stand against sexual harassment and unlawful strip searches in Turkish prisons
Sexual harassment and unlawful strip-searches in Turkish prisons and detention centers were protested on Twitter on Tuesday after human rights activist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 91 air force officers over alleged Gülen links
The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 91 air force officers of varying ranks and five people allegedly linked...
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