A media advocacy group accused Turkey’s president of trying to silence the country’s main opposition newspaper and free press as the second hearing of a trial against staff members of the paper began Monday.
Read moreTurkey’s pro-Kurdish political party has announced the release from prison of one of its lawmakers pending a trial on terror charges.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday denounced the indictments in the United States of 19 people, among them 15 Turkish security officials, calling them “scandalous.”
Read moreA Turkish businessman sought by the United States on allegations he sold equipment to Iran’s military in violation of sanctions asked a Romanian court Thursday to free him from arrest.
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WASHINGTON (CN) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced indictments against 19 people with ties to Turkey’s government who are accused
Read moreUrging a federal judge to bless its sale of a roughly 5,000-year-old idol, Christie’s auction house says a challenge by Turkey undermines decades of records about the antiquity’s provenance.
Read moreTurkey’s state news agency says that Turkish authorities have arrested and charged a suspected Islamic State group member with killing two Syrian journalists in Turkey in 2015.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday declined to order the release of two Turkish citizens who were detained after going on a hunger strike to protest being fired from the jobs.
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Nearly 500 suspects, including a number of generals and military pilots, went on trial in Turkey Tuesday accused of leading last year’s failed coup attempt and carrying out attacks from an air base in Ankara.
Read moreA New York federal judge ordered auction house Christie’s to disclose the anonymous bidder who bought a Bronze Age marble idol for $14.4 million to lawyers for the Turkish government, which claims it is looted.
Read moreA Turkish court on Tuesday jailed Amnesty International’s Turkey director Idil Eser and five other human rights activists pending trial for allegedly aiding an armed terror group — making them the latest victims of a massive government crackdown initially launched against alleged supporters of last year’s failed coup but has since broadened to include government opponents.
Read moreA satirical cover for a political news magazine was all it took to see its editor eventually sentenced to more than two decades in prison.
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Turkey on Friday rejected a key demand by several Arab states involved in a major dispute with Qatar, saying Ankara has no plans to shut down its military base in the small Gulf country.
Read moreA judge denied bail Friday to a man accused of assaulting two female protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence during a violent melee last month.
Read moreProsecutors unveiled assault charges Thursday against 16 people over the violence against protesters that erupted last month when Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited the White House.
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A federal judge cleared the way for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to provide the Turkish tycoon accused of busting Iran sanctions with help, both legal and quasi-diplomatic.
Read moreFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a federal judge Monday that he played no role in crafting President Trump’s “so-called Muslim ban executive orders,” despite Giuliani’s previous claim to the contrary on Fox News.
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Detention warrants were issued Friday for four senior staff at an opposition newspaper, Turkey’s state-run news agency said, drawing criticism from the country’s pro-secular opposition.
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At a diplomatic crossroads on fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, the presidents of Turkey and the United States are expected to spar at their White House meeting Tuesday on the fate of a gold trader incarcerated in New York City.
Read moreSkewering Rudy Giuliani for using “surprisingly disingenuous” euphemisms, a federal judge unloaded on the former New York City mayor for dancing around charges that his client laundered money for Iran.
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