Turkish Police

Turkey nabs Iraqi Daesh member, rescues Yazidi girl

The Daesh member, who had once served as an officer in the Iraqi army, was arrested in an early morning raid in the capital Ankara while the 7-year-old Yazidi girl was later placed in the care of social services.

Turkey arrests 72 over suspected links to FETO

Prosecutors in Istanbul issued arrest warrants for 118 people, including 98 on-duty soldiers, as part of an investigation into Fetullah Terrorist Organisation.

Turkish court jails key FETO member

Resat Nazmi Oral was arrested in a joint operation conducted by Turkish police and the National Intelligence Organization on July 29 in Batikent district of Ankara and he was referred to a court on August 9.

Turkey breaks up Europe's biggest human smuggling ring

Twenty people, including ringleader Akbar Omar Tawfeeq, detained in operations in four Turkish provinces after a year-long investigation into the organisation, Istanbul police say.

'Terrorists targeting Turkish parliament will pay the price'

The man and woman who attempted to attack the Turkish parliament arrived saying they were paying a visit to Mahmut Tanal, Istanbul Deputy of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who had reportedly invited them.

Over 3,000 irregular migrants held across Turkey

Security forces held 3,099 irregular migrants across Turkey as the country has been main route for refugees trying to cross to Europe, especially since beginning of war in Syria.

Turkey arrests 224 soldiers over suspected FETO links – sources

The soldiers are accused of communicating with Fetullah Terrorist Organisation – a terror group behind 2016 defeated coup in the country – through pay phones and landline phones.

Nearly 650 FETO suspects arrested over bid to infiltrate police

Turkish security forces arrested 641 FETO suspects out of total 1,112 sought in a probe related to a leaked 2010 police exam paper, Anadolu news agency, citing sources says.

Meeting of Saudi suspects in Turkey's Yalova 'linked' to Khashoggi body

Turkish prosecutor says Mansoor Othman Abahusain, one of 15 Saudi suspects who entered Turkey on October 2 when Jamal Khashoggi was killed, called Saudi citizen Mohammed Ahmed Alfaozan on October 1 regarding disposal of the writer's body.

Saudi team sent to Istanbul to 'cover up' Khashoggi's murder identified

A Turkish official says two men were sent to erase evidence of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder a week after he disappeared at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Khashoggi's body was 'dissolved' after murder – Erdogan advisor

"We now see that it wasn't just cut up, they got rid of the body by dissolving it," Yasin Aktay tells Hurriyet newspaper of Jamal Khashoggi's fate inside Saudi Arabia's Istanbul consulate where the Riyadh-critic was last seen a month ago.

One month on, where is Khashoggi's body?

Earlier this month, press accounts quoted a Saudi official as saying the body of Jamal Khashoggi had been given to a local collaborator in Turkey to take care of, but no Saudi official has addressed its whereabouts on record. So, where is his body?