An İstanbul court on Monday ordered the release pending trial of former television executive and presenter Veyis Ateş, who had been jailed since December in a drug investigation targeting prominent ...

Greece’s embassy in Ankara on Thursday formally protested Turkey’s declaration of two marine parks, saying their boundaries have no legal effect where they extend beyond Turkish jurisdiction and ...

Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment against jailed comedian Deniz Göktaş over remarks in his viral stand-up show “Ölü Deniz” (Dead Sea), accusing him of insulting President Recep Tayyip ...

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 31 lawyers accused of using subscription-based, illegal data-query systems to access citizens’ personal information and target people with false ...

The captain and third officer of an oil tanker that collided with a cargo ship off İstanbul have been arrested on charges of negligent homicide, prosecutors said Friday. The arrests came late Thursday ...

Turkish prosecutors have indicted 51 minors, including 30 in pretrial detention, over 22 alleged gang-related incidents linked to an armed youth gang based in İstanbul, the İHA news agency reported on ...

Turkish criminal networks are advertising contract killings, recruiting children, selling weapons and arranging migrant-smuggling routes to Europe through platforms such as Telegram, an investigation ...

Former Ankara mayor Melih Gökçek has been summoned for questioning as a suspect in an investigation into allegations that undeclared funds were transferred to companies abroad, Turkish media reported ...

The opposition-run Ankara Metropolitan Municipality has filed a criminal complaint against former mayor Melih Gökçek, members of his family and several others, alleging that they operated a criminal ...

Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of journalist Kemal Öztürk, a former press adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, over televised remarks targeting Syria’s Arab Alawite minority that ...

A founding member of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) warned Monday that Turkey’s recent criminal investigations into religious groups risked becoming a ...

Turkey’s hunger line rose above 37,000 lira in August, reaching 37,388 lira ($775) for a family of four in Ankara, according to the TÜRK-İŞ union’s monthly survey released on Monday. The poverty line, ...