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A new video released by the Turkish media shows the moment when Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, the only defendant in a high-profile U.S. case, was taken into federal custody by U.S. law…

Headlines and Major Stories  The U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and President Erdogan's threat to cut ties with the Israeli state if that move happens was one of the…

A day after threatening to cut off diplomatic relations with Israel, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an urgent summit of the main Islamic body in Istanbul next week to discuss a…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu with legal action last week after revelations about his family members'…

Turkey has detained 17 staff members and workers working for Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab who is testifying as a witness in the Iran sanctions trial in a New York court. Reza…

In a rare act of turnaround, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan retracted his threats against businessmen over moving assets out of the country and said Turkey is an open market economy with no…

After direct examination of Reza Zarrab, a star witness in a high-profile trial that roiled the Turkish-U.S. relations, by prosecutors ended, defense lawyers of Halkbank executive Mehmet…

Headlines Aksam CIA Locked Him in Cage in Dubai Path of Reza Zarrab, the key architect of the plot in the U.S., was crossed with CIA in Dubai in 2015 and in Istanbul in 2016. U.S.…

Headlines Hurriyet Reza's Secret Dubai Plan  After his properties were confiscated, Reza Zarrab's staff were also detained. A handwritten note seized by police shows that Zarrab made…

Defense lawyers of a senior bank official, who appears as the only defendant in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of engineering and coordinating a scheme to bust U.S. sanctions against Iran,…