Press TV- Police in Turkey have arrested dozens of people working at a now-shuttered university over suspected involvement in an attempted coup last year.
Turkeys Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday that Turkish law enforcement personnel had arrested 54 staff members from Istanbuls former Fatih University.
Fatih University, which was ...
Reuters - The U.S. case against a Turkish gold trader accused of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran is based on evidence fabricated by the network of the Muslim cleric Ankara blames for last years coup attempt, Turkeys foreign minister said on Friday.
Mevlut Cavusoglu said the case against the trader, Reza Zarrab, showed the extent to which followers ...
Alwaght- A year after the failed coup in Turkey, the US government has declined to respond to the Turkish calls urging extradition of Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based cleric accused of orchestrating the botched attempt.
Recently, Gulen said that the US will never yield to the Turkish demands and will never hand him over to the Turkish ...
Turkish Minute - Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? said a visit to the US that will start on Sunday would focus on the temporary detention of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Glen and his extradition to Turkey, not on Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who was arrested in the US in 2016 for violating sanctions against Iran, the state-run ...
Press TV- Turkey has voiced optimism regarding bilateral relations with the US under President Donald Trump, saying it primarily expects the new US administration to extradite Turkish opposition figure Fetullah Gulen.
The Pennsylvania-based oppositionist, who is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ally-turned- bte noire, is accused of masterminding ...
Press TV- Turkish prosecutors have ordered the arrest of as many as 243 staff with the countrys military over their alleged use of a messaging application, which Ankara associates with US-based opposition cleric Fetullah Gulen.
The arrest warrants were issued on Wednesday as part of Ankaras ongoing crackdown on those suspected of having a hand ...
RT- After extending its state of emergency this week, Turkey has issued three decrees that have resulted in the dismissal of over 6,000 state and private sector employees. The new rules also allow the government to tighten control over the internet.
The new decrees, numbered 679, 680, and 681, published late Friday in the Official Gazette, appear ...
Press TV- Hundreds of people have been detained for questioning by Turkish authorities in the course of last week over suspected links to opposition leader Fethullah Gulen as well as militant groups.
Turkeys Interior Ministrysaid 1,682 people had been detained for questioning last week, 516 of whomwere remanded in custody.
Most of them are suspected ...
It seems that explaining Turkeys regional actions following the recent failed coup staged by part of the countrys military would not be possible without exploring identity-related developments in the country.
The rise, emergence and role played by three identity layers of Turkey, that is, Islamic, Turkish and European / Western layers, must be considered ...
Turkeys justiceministersays intelligence showsthat Pennsylvania-basedopposition cleric Fethullah Gulen,who is blamed for the mid-July failed coup,is seeking to flee the US following Ankaras request for his extradition.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Bekir Bozdag said followers of theGulen movementare trying to accommodate their 75-year-...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended Ankaras massive post-coup crackdown on thousands of judges and prosecutors, saying the measure will bolster the countrys judiciary.
Speaking to judges and prosecutors in the capital Ankara on Thursday, Erdogan rejected that the crackdown, which was launched after the 15 July coup attempt, would ...
During recent weeks, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched new attacks in a number of locations in Turkeys Kurdish regions and has chosen exploding several-tonne explosive packages in those attacks as its new tactic. Of course, the aforesaid attacks have not harmed the Turkish military and have only targeted the countrys police and gendarmerie ...
More than a month after the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, the crackdown on suspected members of the Gulen community, the accused culprits of the putsch, is continuing and expanding. As of Aug. 18, about 12,000 people have been jailed pending trial, including prominent businessmen, academics, journalists and soldiers;10,000 people remain in custody ...
Turkish prosecutors have demanded two life sentences and an additional 1,900 years in prison for US-based cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the failed mid-July coup.
In a 2,527-page indictment approved by prosecutors in the Usak region of western Turkey, the Pennsylvania-based cleric is charged with "attempting to destroy the constitutional ...
Several weeks passed since one of the darkest days in world history. Many details related to the attempted coup in Turkey came to light in this time. The Turkish nation gave 240 martyrs in total in the events that began on the night of July 15th and lasted until the morning of July 16th. The number of wounded has reached 2,200.
More than 9,000 soldiers ...
The Turkish prime minister says more than 81,000 people have been dismissed or suspended from work over suspected links to US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the failed mid-July coup.
Binali Yildirim told reporters at Cankaya Palace in the capital, Ankara, on Saturday that a total of 76,597 people have been suspended ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the United States to extradite US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed by Ankara for the failed military coup in the country last month.
Addressing thousands of government supporters outside the presidential palace in the capitalAnkaraon Wednesday, Erdogan said Washington must make ...
In the aftermath of the July 15th failed military coup in Turkey, which has resulted in extensive purge of the Turkish military apparatuses, the embattled President Erdogan has openly accused the US of complicity in the coup and brushing aside the US officials' criticisms of his post-coup purges.
Without doubt, the US-Turkish relations have been ...
The recent coup attempt against the Turkish government failed due to a host of factors and reasons, including theoretical and practical weakness of coup plotters, wide support for the ruling Justice and Development Partys government from people, valiant encounter between people and putschists tanks, charismatic figure of Turkeys President Recep Tayyip ...
Turkey has sent another request for the Untied States to extradite dissident cleric Fethullah Gulen, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) According tothe minister, relations betweenAnkara and Washington are deteriorating due tothe latter's refusal toextradite Gulen, who is suspected bythe Turkish government ofinvolvement ...