The man suspected of killing 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Eve has claimed he received the order to attack from ISIL Takfiri group in Syria, local media reported Wednesday. Turkish authorities on Monday detained Abdulgadir Masharipov, 34, who spent 17 days on the run following the ...
Turkish prosecutors are demanding up to 142 years in prison for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtas on charges of links to Kurdish militants, state media said on Tuesday. The charismatic Demirtas was detained in November along with another nine HDP lawmakers and his female co-leader Figen Yuksekdag. ...
