Cihan

Twenty-five people, including two gunmen, have been arrested following the Jan. 28 church attack in Istanbul, with the church reopening for worship with a well-attended service.

Custom enforcement officers have seized 1 ton of cocaine at the Mersin Port in southern Turkey.

This is the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in the country, Trade Minister Mehmet Muş said on Twitter, congratulating the General Directorate of Customs Protection units for the "successful operation."

'The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism' by Cihan Tu?al (Verso, £20, 304 pages)

A co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has admitted problems with the strategy of declaring autonomy in Southeast Anatolia and the erection of barricades that have resulted in massive battles, while again calling for dialogue to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem.

Ruling SYRIZA party is seemingly in a state of ‘cognitive dissonance’, as it released a statement condemning the lack of freedom of press in Turkey, just a few days after its leader and Greek PM Alexis Tsipras had signed an agreement with the Turkish state press agency Anadolu!

A trustee panel has been appointed to a news agency linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who the Turkish president accuses of heading a "terrorist organization," days after a similar ruling led to the seizure of the Zaman media group. 

The country was preparing to learn what a "Turkish-style presidential regime" might mean but was instead given practical lessons on "Turkish-style critical media domestication."

As many as 106 migrants from Syria have been found in a TIR truck with a Bulgarian license plate en route from Turkey to Bulgaria, Cihan News Agency Reports citing Turkish authorities.

As pain is difficult to measure in Turkish, we sometimes use "the grief of losing a child," as a reference point to try to quantify the amount of suffering. We therefore accept that there is no bigger pain than witnessing the death of your child.

The Constitution Court's Nov. 12 decision that the e-ticketing system for football matches, Passolig, does not violate rights has stirred a debate on future attendance of top level games in Turkey.