Turkish man with $1 bills acquitted of Gülen links after admitting cocaine purchase
Mehmet Sinan İnce, a lawyer who had represented Turkey’s infamous mob boss Alaattin Çakıcı, was acquitted by a Turkish court of membership in the...
Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish HDP’s former deputy co-chair Tuğluk to 10 years
An Ankara court on Friday sentenced Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk to 10 years in prison in a...
Turkish gov’t blocks encrypted email service ProtonMail, VPNs
Turkish authorities have blocked the use of ProtonMail, the world’s largest encrypted email service, tech website Gizmodo reported, with the company saying in a...
Turkish gov’t detains record number of Kurdish citizens ahead of Nevroz
The Turkish government on Friday detained at least 94 Kurdish citizens across Turkey over alleged membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ahead...
Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...
Turkish prosecutor demands 15 years in prison for Cumhuriyet daily executives, journalists
The prosecutor overseeing an ongoing "terror" investigation into executives and writers from Turkey's Cumhuriyet daily on Friday asked for the imprisonment of all suspects...
Hundreds of families flee Syrian town of Afrin under Turkish military attack
Hundreds of families fled the Syrian town of Afrin for nearby villages held by pro-Syrian government forces overnight as Turkish forces shelled the town,...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for at least 105 people over alleged links to...
The Turkish government issued detention warrants for at least 105 people on Friday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members...
Veteran Turkish journalist Şahin Alpay released pending trial after 20 months of detention
Şahin Alpay, a veteran journalist and columnist of the now-closed Zaman and Today’s Zaman dailies, was released pending trial on Friday after Turkey’s Constitutional...
Businessman takes refuge with Austrian police after Turkish consulate attempts to seize passport
Yavuz Bülbül, a 37-year-old Turkish businessman, took refuge with Austrian police after officers at the Turkish Consulate General in Vienna attempted to seize his...
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