ISTANBUL: For Ankara, ISIS is an officially listed terrorist organization that poses an immediate threat to Turkish territory. But for critics, Turkey...
ISTANBUL: Turkey's prime minister urged voters Monday to back the ruling party in November polls "so that peace returns to Turkey," where the army is engaged...
ISTANBUL: Turkish anti-Chinese demonstrators stormed the Thai consulate in Istanbul in protest at the deportation by Bangkok of dozens of Uighur Muslims to...
AKCAKALE, Turkey: As the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, taken by Kurds from ISIS militants this week, looms in the distance, one question troubles the Turkish...
Istanbul: Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party was Sunday set to lose its absolute majority in parliament after a sharp fall in support from voters, in a...
ISTANBUL: In Istanbul’s centuries-old Grand Bazaar, the hum of commerce is as noisy as ever. Vendors sell tea, coppersmiths craft their wares, merchants shout...
ISTANBUL: The annual Istanbul Film Festival on Monday announced that it had scrapped all its competitions this year due to a bitter row over a film about...
ISTANBUL: “Now stand up, pray and repent,” the man told Turkish photojournalist Bunyamin Aygun. “We are going to execute you tomorrow by the...
ISTANBUL: Turkey Monday said that the wanted partner of one of the gunmen behind the terror attacks in France crossed into Syria last week, insisting it was...
ISTANBUL: Touted as the “Turkish Liberace,” late singer Zeki Muren was fond of women’s clothes and outrageous makeup and was held up as a gay icon – an...
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Monday to make lessons in the Arabic-alphabet Ottoman language compulsory in high schools – a highly...
ISTANBUL: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Monday to make lessons in the Arabic-alphabet Ottoman language compulsory in high schools -- a highly...
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities said Wednesday they intend to go ahead with the redevelopment of Istanbul's Gezi Park, the same project that sparked deadly...
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court (ICC) will not launch a prosecution over Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010 in which 10 Turkish...
ISTANBUL: “It was as if we were in the middle of a war zone,” said 22-year-old drama student Aslihan Celebi as she described the scene of a violent...
ISTANBUL: Turkey's ruling party said Thursday it was optimistic about the prospects for the peace process with Kurdish rebels after a spate of violence...
ISTANBUL: Pro-Kurdish demonstrators angered by Turkey's lack of action in the fight against jihadists on the Syrian border clashed with police across the...
ISTANBUL: Award-winning Turkish-German director Fatih Akin says he dropped plans to make a film about an Armenian journalist murdered in 2007 because no...
ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacrificed any possibility of Turkey mediating in Gaza in favor of wooing voters ahead of presidential polls...
ISTANBUL: The sun is setting but the party is only just beginning for 29-year-old Merve Kortan, one of the many young Turks who hang out in Istanbul’s vibrant...
ISTANBUL: After embarking on a peace process with homegrown Kurdish militants, Turkey is finally reconciling itself with the prospect of an independent...
ISTANBUL: Turkey's prime minister said Friday his government was doing "everything necessary" to secure the release of dozens of its citizens seized by...
ANKARA: Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to announce his candidature for presidential elections in August despite deepening concern over...
ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police on Thursday fired tear gas and water cannon at demonstrators in Istanbul hurling stones and petrol bombs in the latest in a...
SOMA , turkey: Turkish police on Sunday detained 24 people, including mining executives, suspected of negligence over the disaster that killed 301 people and...