Turanism

Three more people, including Tolgahan Demirbaş, alleged to have been caught in the house of a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lawmaker, have been arrested in the investigation launched into the assassination of the former head of an ultra-nationalist group, Grey Wolves.

Three more suspects have been detained in the investigation launched into the assassination of the former head of the ultra-nationalist group, Grey Wolves, bringing the total number to 18.

Sedat Peker. Photo: Sedat Peker's Facebook page.

"If the judiciary cannot fight against crime, corruption and bribery everything will be finished. We are now waiting for an effective and comprehensive investigation [into Peker's claims]," Muharrem Erkek, the vice chair of the Republican People's Party, CHP, said on Monday after his party filed a criminal complaint.

The Sansaryan Han in Istanbul's Sirkeci neighborhood was once home to poor Armenian children, a police headquarters and the Istanbul Courthouse. Today, its landowners want to put it out to tender to rent it out for the next 35 years and make it a five-star hotel.

Police in the Mediterranean province of Adana seized on Feb. 22 an 18th century icon that has one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ embroidered on gazelle skin. 

Turkish prosecutors have sought up to 11 years in prison for a previously convicted crime gang boss for his remarks vowing to "bathe in the blood" of signatories of a campaign launched in reaction to the Turkish Armed Forces' anti-terror operations in the southeast.

Hundreds of Turkish academics have expressed solidarity with their colleagues suspected of terrorism crimes after signing a petition to call for an end to ongoing violence in southeastern Turkey in a statement sent to the Hürriyet Daily News.

A notorious convicted criminal has publicly issued death threats against academics and intellectuals who called on the Turkish government to end security operations in Southeast Anatolia, just a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an labeled more than 1,000 national and international academics as "poor excuses for intellectuals."

Exactly 101 years ago, a series of breath-taking developments in European and Turkish seas put the Ottoman Empire into a war that would destroy it. Recently revealed documents correct some misconceptions about how the Turks entered World War I "Enver [Pasha] had wanted to stand back and let the Great Powers destroy one another.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has attended the wedding of an infamous pro-government social media ?troll? and was photographed while chatting with a well-known criminal suspect.