كشفت تركيا عن حصيلة العمليات الأمنية الواسعة التي أطلقتها عقب محاولة انقلاب 15 يوليو 2016، وشملت احتجاز الأجهزة الأمنية 282 ألفا و790 شخصا واعتقال وحبس 94 ألفا و975 آخر.
وقال وزير داخلية تركيا، سليمان صويلو، بمناسبة الذكرى السنوية الرابعة للمحاولة (...)
A military ground operation in Syria by Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda and any such move would need to involve all countries in the US-led coalition against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut (...)
Turkey wants the creation of a secure zone 10 km (6.2 miles) deep inside Syria along its southern border, including the town of Azaz, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcın Akdogan said on Wednesday.
"What we want is to create a secure strip, including Azaz, (...)
The anonymous hackers collective has claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is planning to stage large-scale attacks in five countries on Sunday.
In a statement released on Saturday, the group identified "confirmed" risks or (...)
Turkey has deported some of eight moroccans detained and questioned on arrival at İstanbul's main airport over suspected militant links, a Turkish government official said.
The eight, who said they had arrived at Atatürk Airport from Casablanca for (...)
Suspected Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) militants who were detained in raids in İstanbul last week were in contact with the militants in Paris who conducted deadly attacks across the city, a senior Turkish security official said Monday.
The official (...)
The state-owned Turkish Satellite Communications Company (Türksat) dropped a total of 13 TV and radio channels including Samanyolu TV, Mehtap TV, S Haber and Radio Cihan that are critical of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) as of (...)
The leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) have said that unfair election conditions and a deliberate policy of polarization by President Tayyip Erdogan explain their drop-off in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
The HDP was (...)
German politician Ska Keller, vice chairwoman of the Greens in the European Parliament and a member of the European Union-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), has said the Turkish government's seizure of the critical İpek Media Group (...)
he European Union's progress report on Turkey for 2015, the final version of which will be released on Oct. 14, will express deep concern over growing violations of the rule of law and restrictions on press freedom, according to sources who spoke to (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended on Friday Saudi Arabia in the face of growing international criticism, particularly by Iran, over deaths of more than 700 people at the Hajj pilgrimage, saying critics should recognize difficulties of (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had pressed for the departure of Syrian President Bashar Assad for any solution of the intractable Syrian conflict, has said a solution that would include Assad is possible during a transition process.
"It (...)
According to a Hürriyet daily report on Saturday, governors of three provinces where the PKK is most active accepted in 2014 only eight out of 290 demands by the military for authorization to conduct an operation against the PKK.
"Those responsible (...)
The Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into journalist Ahmet Altan for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Altan was a guest on a TV program on Sept. 2, coming after Turkish police conducted raids on the İpek Media (...)
Twelve Turkish soldiers were injured when terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) detonated explosives they planted on a road in the eastern province of Mus on Tuesday.
According to media reports, the attack took place near the village of (...)
An ongoing investigation into last week's bomb attack by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on a police bus that killed 13 police officers has revealed that the assailants detonated five tons of explosives in the attack.
The officers were (...)
According to security experts and strategists on terrorism, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is responsible for the high number of soldier killings by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as the government's flawed security policies and (...)
Syrian insurgents killed 56 government soldiers during an assault that led to their capture of an air base in the northwest of the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group said on Thursday.
An alliance of insurgents (...)
According to media reports, heavy weapons are being used in the ongoing fighting between security forces and PKK terrorists in Cizre, where many homes have been destroyed due to explosions. The number of casualties has been increasing day by day, (...)
Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Thursday reacted to Kurds' declaring autonomy in the southeastern parts of the country following clashes with Turkish security forces, saying no one should confuse Turkey and believe it is the same as (...)
As thousands of people continued on Thursday to bid farewell to police officers killed by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), funerals held in the hometowns of the martyrs were marked by widespread vocal condemnation of both the Justice and (...)
Twenty customs officers who had been kidnapped by terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members in the southeastern provinces of Hakkari and Van last month have been released.
According to the Doğan news agency the officers, accompanied by a (...)
Dozens of buildings belonging to local branches of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) were attacked on Monday in several cities across Turkey, after the General Staff confirmed that 16 soldiers had been killed in an ambush by the (...)
According to unconfirmed sources, 15 Turkish soldiers were killed in a PKK attack in Daglıca on Sunday afternoon. According to media reports, the PKK terrorists detonated explosives that they had planted along a road while two military vehicles, (...)
Lawyer Veysel Kırıcı filed a criminal complaint against Erdogan on Tuesday, accusing him of violating Article 302 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) on undermining the unity and integrity of the state, according to a report in the Sözcü daily on (...)
