Fethullahist Terror Organization

Turkey is not just a state of the United States, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said, amid a growing backlash against U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass after his statement on the appointment of trustees to 28 municipalities across the country on terror charges

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has ordered the reinstating of a Kurdish name plate in the Diyadin district municipality in the eastern Turkish province of Ağrı, after the plate was removed following Ankara's removal of Diyadin's elected mayor, replaced by a trustee.

The Turkish Justice Ministry demanded Washington on Sept. 13 arrest U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen over the July 15 failed coup attempt, sending the first temporary arrest request to the country, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Ankara accuses Gülen of giving the order for the failed coup attempt and commanding it, a charge he denies.

One of the topics discussed at the cabinet meeting presided over by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was those who have been expelled from public work within the context of the fight against the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ). Interestingly, this topic was brought up by the president, who, as a matter of fact, was the very person whose hotel was raided by putschists trying to kill him. <

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has warned that Turkey's "legitimate" post-coup attempt investigation must stick to the principles of presumption of innocence and individual criminal responsibility.

A local court in the northwestern border province of Edirne ordered the release of an academic and a teacher, who were suspended from their duties as part of the ongoing probe into the July 15 failed coup attempt, after they attempted to escape to Greece illegally from the province's Uzunkörpü district on Sept. 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Turkey's Interior Ministry appointed trustees to 28 local municipalities across the country on Sept. 11 on the grounds that they allegedly provided support to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which was accused of staging the failed coup attempt of July 15, sparking angry reaction from the opposition.

Turkey's Interior Ministry appointed trustees to 28 local municipalities across the country on Sept. 11, on the grounds that they allegedly provided support to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which was blamed on the failed coup attempt of July 15.

Disagreement between Turkey and the European Union continues over the bloc's pledge to assist Syrian refugees, as a member of the Turkish cabinet has said Ankara was yet to receive any financial support, contrary to claims that the EU has sent 2 billion euros.

New footage showing the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalistHrant Dink as he was chatting with police officers in a tea room of the police station where he was brought after being caught surfaced on Sept. 8, a day after nine-year-old other video images related to the crime were revealed.