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Turkish authorities have dismissed no fewer than 90,000 public servants for alleged connections to a coup attempt in July, 2016 ...

The first court case against suspected plotters of the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey started in Istanbul on Tuesday, ...

Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, lies on the floor next to his killer, 22-year-old Turkish policeman, Mevlut Mert ...

Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu says that the gunman who killed the Russian Ambassador to Ankara was a 22-year-old man police ...

Turkey will reinstate some 6,000 teachers who were suspended in recent months by decree, under the country’s sweeping state-of-emergency laws. ...

Turkey is returning 3,181 suspended security officials to their posts, a report said on Wednesday, as the country continues to ...

Turkey’s Air Force has made a public appeal to hundreds of former pilots to return to its depleted ranks to ...

A human rights group, the Concern African Youth Against Tyranny (CAYAT), has condemned the President Tayyip Erdoğan-led government in Turkey ...

Turkey’s Security General Directorate on Tuesday announced that a total of 12,801 police officers have been suspended from their posts ...

Israel, on Friday, deposited $20 million in a bank account run by the Turkish Justice Ministry, as part of a ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday, called on Turkey to reverse its decision to close down no less ...

The trial of two journalists of Turkish left-wing newspaper, Cumhuriyet, over their alleged support for terrorists began on Wednesday in ...

Turkey’s Justice Ministry has formally requested the United States (U.S.) to provisionally arrest Islamic cleric, Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara ...

Turkish authorities have released more than 35,000 prisoners to free up space in its crowded facilities. A media report said ...

Turkish Defence Ministry said on Thursday in Ankara that as the effects of a failed coup in July continued to ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister and a host of other Turkish leaders, took part on Friday in an ...

President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said he would tell U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Washington had "no excuse" for ...

  Turkish police carried out raids on Thursday against businesses in 18 provinces, with detention orders for 187 businessmen. The ...

  Turkey has detained 35,022 people, of whom 17,740 have been formally arrested under court orders, since the attempted coup ...

  Turkish police, on Wednesday, detained 112 businessmen in several provinces, accusing them all of having links to a U.S.-based ...