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 ...

Press TV- Seven Turkish journalists of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet have been released after nine months in jail as calls increase on authorities to also free four other staffers of the daily who remain behind bars on accusations of abetting terrorism. A court in Istanbul said on Friday that the seven could walk free under judicial control....

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 ...

Press TV- Amnesty International slams Ankara for keeping six rights activists, including the director of its Turkey branch, in pre-trial custody on terror-related charges, saying the move shows truth and justice have become total strangers in the country. Idil Eser, Amnesty International Turkeys director, was among thegroup of human rights activists ...

Al Monitor | Cengiz Candar: July 15 marked the first anniversary of last year'sbotched military coup in Turkey. The date has been officiallydeemedDay of Democracy and National Unity,"and the celebration ceremonies and commemoration of the martyrs who lost their lives during the turmoil on that night and during the early hours of July 16revealed deep ...

Press TV - The main Turkish opposition party has accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of having prior knowledge ofthe failedJuly 15, 2016 putsch, saying Ankara carried out a controlled coup in an attempt to exploit its outcomes. The head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, made the remarks on Monday,...

IRNA - Turkish foreign minister said his government and people appreciate Irans support against the attempted coup on July 15th last year and would never forget this precious encouragement. In an exclusive interview with IRNA on the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the ECO Council of Ministers in Islamabad, Mevlt avu?o?lu said, 'Mohammad Javad Zarif ...

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 ...

Turkish Minute- Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said he does not care about being portrayed as a dictator in the Western press in the wake of the latest government crackdown on an opposition newspaper and a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey. They [the Western press] will make caricatures of us with pressure in newspapers, but we will not take ...

Press TV- A court in the Turkish city of Istanbul has ordered the imprisonment of nine of 13 journalists and staffers of a major opposition newspaper, saying they should go to jail pending trial. Local Turkish media said the nine from Cumhuriyet daily were imprisoned on Saturday but no date was specified for their trial. On Friday, Turkish ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to respond to calls from his supporters for the plotters of the July 15 attempted coup to receive the ultimate punishment, and he is signaling his keenness on seeing the death penalty reinstated in Turkey. It is not clear, though, whether he is doing this for its own sake or if he is using the topic to increase ...

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-...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi hailed the Turkish people for backing their government in a failed coup attempt in July, saying the era of coups has ended in the world. The era of coups is over and it is the people of countries who determine their government, Vaezi said in Turkey, on the ...

During past weeks and following the failed coup attempt in Turkey, Ankara has taken new actions at domestic and regional levels, which need to be given serious attention. Turkey is considered as the main foreign actor behind the existing developments in Syria. The Syria crisis could turn into a quagmire for Iran, which is present in that country ...

The recent failed coup attempt in Turkey has turned into a turning point in relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey, because this fateful development unveiled Turkeys real friends and enemies. The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first country to condemn the coup at its first moments and without attention to its final outcome, and ...

I call the US public to be understanding of what Turkey has been going through. The US-Turkey friendship should not be made an instrument of mundane politics and self-interests "Based on my 35 years of experience, if you do not keep your promises to Turks, you will regret it." The words above belong to James Jeffrey, the US former Ambassador ...