Lawyers from the Turkish city of Izmir requested on Monday authorities to investigate claims made by a mob boss that ministers from the ruling party were involved in various crimes, including drug trafficking and the murder of a journalist.  

Migrants rights groups denounced on Friday the decision of a Greek court to sentence a Somali asylum seeker to 146 years in prison for people smuggling because he steered the boat in which he and other illegal migrants tried to cross from Turkey to Greece.

Turkish authorities arrested 68 suspected members of a group accused of stealing over US$2 billion from investors through a cryptocurrency trading platform whose founder fled the country and is now on an Interpol wanted list.

Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish tycoon now on the run over a half-billion-dollar fraud scheme involving members of fundamentalist Mormon sect, hosted influential Americans on a backchannel trip to Turkey to free jailed American pastor Andrew Brunson.

A U.S.-based research institute has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of using a loan from a state-owned bank to gain control over one of the country’s major telecommunications operators, thus further consolidating his personal power.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS), approved an operation to “capture or kill” Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, a declassified U.S. report has revealed on Friday.

Before even being published, the updated version of the European Council’s tax haven blacklist has already drawn criticism from politicians, academics and civil society organizations for being overly political and failing to serve its purpose.

Pirates killed one and kidnapped 15 crew members of a Turkish cargo ship on Saturday in the latest attack on vessels sailing off the coast of West Africa -- the most dangerous region in the world for piracy.

Amnesty International has criticized Facebook for ultimately caving in to what the NGO considers a draconian set of amendments to Turkey’s internet laws. 

Police in Europe cracked down on the illegal arms trade across the continent in two separate operations that saw 18 arrests, dozens of objects raided, nearly 200 firearms and millions in assets seized across the continent.  

A New York antiquities dealer who was arrested last month along with his business partner for falsifying provenance records has a family history in the illegal antiquities trade that goes back half a century, the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art, ARCA, revealed.

Turkey’s main opposition party on Wednesday launched a parliamentary inquiry into government bribery following Sunday’s publication of a cross-border investigation by OCCRP and Courthouse News Service.

Turkey’s president has enjoyed an unusually powerful sway over the Trump administration. A new investigation reveals the relationship was built by a circle that included Trump’s favorite lobbyist, a key character in the Ukraine impeachment scandal, a Kremlin-linked oligarch, and a shipping tycoon charged with terrorism.

Albanian authorities said on Monday that they have seized the assets of a media mogul whose wealth is believed to have come from drug trafficking in Turkey and Italy.

Boston-based pharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it will pay US$21.5 million to settle bribery and other violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

In a bid to stop COVID-19 from spreading through its prisons, Turkey plans to release tens of thousands of criminals including gangsters and attempted murderers – but no journalists or political prisoners will be freed, according to activists who condemned the move on Thursday.

European authorities arrested 13 suspected members of a Turkish drug trafficking group and seized 2.4 tonnes of heroin that was supposed to be shipped to Europe in food or construction materials containers, Europol announced on Monday.

AnOCCRP investigation into payments going from Ukrainian political Serhiy Lovochkin via former Trump campaign director Paul Manafor to senior European politicians should prompt creation of a formal  investigative unit,Transparency International (TI) said in a Wednesday statement.

Federal prosecutors in New York charged on Tuesday Turkey’s second-largest state-bank with money laundering and violating US sanctions against Iran.

The UN investigator assigned to review Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey held on Wednesday Saudi Arabia responsible for actions she called an ‘international crime’ and is expected to deliver her 100-page report to the UN next week.