In a changing Turkish media landscape, Alaattin Çakıcı, a far-right-linked notorious gangster and former intelligence services hit man, has become an important figure with links to the new owners of Turkish media outlets. Çakıcı tweeted a photo ...
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has refused to file charges based on torture allegations made by Zabit Kişi, 48, who said he was tortured for more than three months after being abducted from Kazakhstan ...
Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family and officials of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Free Web ...
BAGHDAD – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar began an official visit to Iraq on Monday that observers considered an extension of Turkey’s efforts to impose its security and military equation on Iraq. This equation, which ...
ANKARA – Turkey on Tuesday hit Twitter, Pinterest and Periscope with advertising bans after they refused to follow Facebook and appoint a local representative to take down contentious posts under a controversial new law described by ...
The Biden administration will declassify an intelligence report into the murder by the Saudi government of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Avril Haines, who has been nominated to serve as director of national intelligence. The ...
The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s office issued a detention warrant for veteran journalist Cengiz Çandar on the charge of praising crime and criminals over a 2017 tweet mourning the death of a woman killed while ...
The father of Turkey’s best-known footballer, ex-international Hakan Şükür, has been given a prison sentence of three years, 45 days on charges of aiding a terrorist organization due to his alleged links to the Gülen ...
The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided that the right to life of Nigerian migrant Festus Okey, who was fatally shot by a police officer, was violated, Turkish media reported. According to the court Okey’s family ...
ANKARA: Joe Biden’s new US administration has hinted at pursuing a hardline foreign policy approach to dealing with NATO member Turkey. With American-Turkish bilateral relations already strained, Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of state, on ...