IZMIR, Turkey: When Andrew Brunson saw police summons on his door in late summer 2016, the U.S. evangelical pastor thought it was a routine appointment to...
ISTANBUL: Immediately after winning Sunday’s referendum, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to reinstate the death penalty, a reform put in place 15...
RIZE, Turkey: On banners hung from mosques, cultural centers, construction sites and bridges, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s face punctuates the landscape...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: In Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, deeply scarred by conflict between state forces and militants, a textile firm that supplies...
HOYUK MILITARY OUTPOST, Turkey: Turkey is steadily sealing its frontier with Syria, long infiltrated in both directions by fighters and smugglers, with...
ISTANBUL: Turkey has increased scrutiny of Russian-speaking Muslim communities in the past few months following a series of attacks blamed on Daesh (ISIS), a...
ISTANBUL: Prominent Turkish journalist Ahmet Sik was detained Thursday on suspicion of spreading terrorist propaganda, state media and an opposition lawmaker...
ISTANBUL: Free haircuts, scientific funding, fish and tombstones are among the incentives being offered to Turks who answer President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s...
ISTANBUL: Time was that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dedicated large parts of his speeches to condemning Syrian leader Bashar Assad for atrocities...
Turkey said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organisations and U.S.-based...
JARABLUS, Syria: Two months after driving Daesh (ISIS) from this Syrian border town, the young rebel fighters patrolling its streets nurse an ambition beyond...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey: As U.S.-led coalition jets from a Turkish air base began to pound Daesh (ISIS) targets in Syria in the summer of 2015, Ilhami Bali passed...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL: When U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Turkey in January, he struck a difficult balance between showing support for a NATO ally faced...
ISTANBUL: Just weeks ago, commander Adem Huduti was inspecting Turkish troops on the Syrian border and being praised in the media for his role in the fight...
ISTANBUL: A few months after he started attending meetings of a hard-line Islamic community group in a poor Istanbul suburb, 25-year-old Murat Kipcak stopped...
KILIS, Turkey: Turkish shopkeeper Mehmet Baykal knew he had less than 10 seconds to dive under his desk when he heard another rocket being fired from Daesh...
ELBEYLI, Turkey: Slabs of concrete wall have sprung up and military patrols have intensified, but local people say this stretch of Turkey’s border facing...
BAKU/ANKARA: Turkey’s leaders have mounted a charm offensive among regional energy producers in an effort to diversify supplies as relations with major...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Tired of trenches in the streets and daily gun battles, shopkeeper Berzani Akdogan is hoping the return of single-party rule might bring...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Young, urban-based fighters, many of them still teenagers, have taken center-stage in the conflict between Kurdish militants and Turkish...
EDIRNE, Turkey: Hundreds of mainly Syrian migrants spent the night out in the open near Turkey's Greek border after police halted their bid to reach the...
EDIRNE, Turkey: Turkish security forces stopped hundreds of people, mainly Syrians, from marching towards western Turkey's border with Greece Tuesday in a bid...
ISTANBUL: A second group of rebel fighters trained in Turkey by the U.S.-led coalition could be deployed to Syria within weeks as part of a campaign to push...
ANKARA: Turkish warplanes Wednesday pounded targets of PKK rebels in northern Iraq in a new wave of strikes in its campaign against militant groups, as Ankara...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Kurdish fighters in northern Syria accused the Turkish army of shelling their positions Monday, highlighting the precarious path Ankara is...