Some 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or VIP visit. Protesters chant ‘Allahu Akbar’ & ‘Go Home USA’ outside Incirlik air base. Hurriyet reported earlier that Adana police... 

Turkey’s purge of Gulen supporters continued on Saturday with the closure of hundreds of private schools, charities and other institutions suspects of links with the US-based cleric. Ankara declared a state of emergency after a failed military coup. The decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is his first since the state of emergency was declared on Wednesday. He has ordered the closure... 

A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) was authorized today to ban all Russian citizens from traveling to the Republic of Turkey after the Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that two US-NATO naval armadas currently operating in the Black Sea have combined and set sail towards Turkey territorial waters and... 

Turkey has revoked the licenses of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions, an Education Ministry official told Reuters. It’s the latest in a string of crackdowns on workers allegedly tied to the exiled cleric blamed for last week’s coup attempt. “The licenses of 21,000 teachers working in privately-run institutions have been cancelled. Tip-offs that these [people] are mostly... 

Despite a massive cyberattack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party’s internal server and thousands of attached files in response to the Ankara government’s widespread post-coup purges. Some 294,548 emails pertaining to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice & Development Party (AKP) were made public on... 

The pilots linked to the downing of the Russian Su-24 jet in November are among those who were arrested for plotting Friday’s attempted military coup in Turkey, Turkey’s Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag confirmed Tuesday. “Among those arrested for plotting the military coup are the pilots who shot down the Russian jet,” CNN Turki cited Bosdag as saying. Earlier, mayor of the... 

Looking back at the failed Turkish coup, one question that nobody has been able to answer is why, if the coup was indeed a serious attempt at government overthrow, did the organizers not do the first thing that military coups have done since time immemorial: either capture, or simply eliminate the existing ruler, the vacationing president Erdogan? The following brief story will only add to the confusion... 

A crackdown on the military and the judiciary in the wake of a failed coup attempt has led to the detention of thousands of soldiers and judges and prosecutors, including commanders and top court members. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on July 17 said around 6,000 suspects, including at least 2,839 soldiers and thousands of judiciary members, have been detained as part of a wide-scale operation... 

Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government and the degradation of its society. Reflexively, Western leaders rushed to condemn a coup attempt they refused to understand. Their reward will be a toxic Islamist regime at the gates of Europe. Our leaders no longer do their basic homework.The media relies on experts-by-Wikipedia. Except for PC platitudes,... 

Unfortunately we have bad news… Constitutionalist/secularist Turkish army failed its coup attempt. Islam has triumphed again. It looks like there is no force on earth capable of stopping the spread of the green plague. Turkey is now 1979’s Iran! Just like Turkey, Iran was a modern civilized country with Western aspirations but all of that was stopped in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 “thanks”... 

Part of the military is attempting a coup in Turkey, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said, following reports of military jets and helicopters flying low over Ankara and Istanbul. “Some people took illegal action outside of the chain of command,” Yildirim told news network NTV. “The government elected by the people remains in charge. This government will only go... 

Populist party leader Norbert Hofer has suggested that Turkey’s potential accession to the European Union could become a catalyst for Austrians to call for an EU referendum, expressing concerns that the inclusion of Turkey in the EU might lead to Austria’s loss of autonomy. Hofer stated, “There is one exception, however, that is if the EU decides to let Turkey join the Union. Austrians... 

An array of Russian and Turkish politicians gave their thoughts on Vladimir Putin receiving a letter from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with apologies for Ankara downing a Russian warplane last year. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has, at long last, apologized to Vladimir Putin for his air force’s move to shoot down a Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria, prompting a host of Russian... 

Turkish authorities will allow Koran readings at Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, a former Christian church and mosque which now is a secular museum. Greece slammed the move, with some fearing that Erdogan’s government is taking steps to turn the site back into a mosque. Verses from the Islamic sacred book will be read at the Byzantine masterpiece daily during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. The readings... 

Member of the Democratic Majlis of Syria and of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PDS), Ahmet Arac, spoke to Sputnik about how the Turkish Army is preparing to invade Syria. Amid violent clashes between militants of Daesh and troops of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the town of Azaz in northern Aleppo district, reports are surfacing suggesting that the Turkish Army units have been seen located...