Turkish prosecutors on Monday issued detention warrants for 120 people, including members of the military, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office ordered ...
Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies took away the adopted child of a family, on the grounds that the father was among civil servants sacked under two-year emergency rule that followed a failed coup ...
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Saturday submitted a petition to the country’s election board containing civil servant voters in İstanbul who had been expelled as a result of decrees issued during Turkey’s state of ...
Turkey intends to block the ratification of North Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol if Skopje does not extradite 15 Turkish nationals whom Ankara accuses of having links to an outlawed religious movement, Greek news site Ekathimerini reported on ...
By Selahattin Demirtas Selahattin Demirtas is an ex-member of the Turkish parliament and a former co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party of Turkey. He is imprisoned in Edirne High Security Prison. Turkey’s recent local elections on March 31 ...
Netanyahu and Erdogan.Emil Salman, Matt Dunham/AP Both Turkey and Israel face elections, and both leaders are playing from the same ethno-nationalist political playbook. But in Turkey, the leftist opposition is still alive and kicking – ...
İsmail Demiriz, former footballer played for Galatasaray. A high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesday handed down a six year, three month sentence to former soccer player İsmail Demiriz for “membership in an armed terrorist ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Without work or residency permits in Turkey and unable to renew their Chinese passports, Qurbanjan Nourmuhammed and his family live in uncertainty in Istanbul, cut off from their son who returned to ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warns savage New Zealand hordes that they’d better not try to take over his empire. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters during a rally in Erzurum, Turkey ...
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the government’s plan to extend the state of emergency imposed after the 2016 coup attempt for another three months, in Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 14, 2018. Credit: Osman Orsal/Reuters For a ...