Members of Turkey's ruling party have expressed relief after the country's top court narrowly rejected calls for the party and its leaders, including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, to be banned from politics.
Turkey's ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities
Judges refrain from banning the country's Islamist-rooted ruling party but issue an ominous warning over secularism
Thousands of mourners were joined Monday by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the funerals of victims killed in Sunday's double bombing in Istanbul.
Prosecutors on Monday indicted 86 secular Turks -- including high-ranking ex-military officials -- on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in coup plots
Turkey and Iraq signed an agreement Thursday that tightens and streamlines their working relationship in a range of areas, including the volatile issue of border security and the promise of a fruitful trade relationship.
Turkey's deputy prime minister defended the ruling party in the country's top court Thursday against charges that it is steering the country toward Islamic rule
Two former generals are being questioned about their alleged involvement with a group suspected of plotting to overthrow the government
The country's top court ruled that a constitutional amendment to allow women in headscarves on university campuses was anti-secularist and hence unlawful
Turkey's top court ruled Thursday that Islamic head scarves violate secularism and cannot be allowed at universities, deepening a divide between the country's Islamic-oriented government and secular institutions
Members of Turkey's ruling party have expressed relief after the country's top court narrowly rejected calls for the party and its leaders, including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, to be banned from politics.
Turkey's ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities
Judges refrain from banning the country's Islamist-rooted ruling party but issue an ominous warning over secularism
Thousands of mourners were joined Monday by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the funerals of victims killed in Sunday's double bombing in Istanbul.
Prosecutors on Monday indicted 86 secular Turks -- including high-ranking ex-military officials -- on terrorism charges for their alleged involvement in coup plots
Turkey and Iraq signed an agreement Thursday that tightens and streamlines their working relationship in a range of areas, including the volatile issue of border security and the promise of a fruitful trade relationship.
Turkey's deputy prime minister defended the ruling party in the country's top court Thursday against charges that it is steering the country toward Islamic rule
Two former generals are being questioned about their alleged involvement with a group suspected of plotting to overthrow the government
The country's top court ruled that a constitutional amendment to allow women in headscarves on university campuses was anti-secularist and hence unlawful
Turkey's top court ruled Thursday that Islamic head scarves violate secularism and cannot be allowed at universities, deepening a divide between the country's Islamic-oriented government and secular institutions
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been indirectly negotiating with Israel for a year, through Turkey, according to Arabic language newspaper published this week.
The nation's top court takes up the case of whether the ruling party is undermining the country's secularist principles
Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Monday in Turkey to shore up relations with the key U.S. ally, which is facing protests from internal critics and complaints from neighboring Iraq.
A prosecutor accuses the ruling party of attacking the sacrosanct principle of secularism. But the electorate has other ideas
It doesn't take long to discover that Coskun Ulusoy, the Warren Buffett of Turkey, is an avid student of warfare. He has hung his jacket neatly on the valet stand behind the desk of his Istanbul office and explained how he ended up at the University of Pittsburgh on a Fulbright scholarship. Now, as he begins to describe how he has been transforming, in his words, "this small, nothing company into a world-class, huge conglomerate," he picks up a notepad to draw a map of Sicily. "Think of Gen. Patton," he says. We're back in 1943, at one of the turning points of World War II. With a few pencil strokes, Ulusoy sketches out how Patton and the U.S. Seventh Army beat Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery and his British forces to the stronghold of Messina, first by taking Palermo in the west, and then swinging back east. "Emergencies require emergency measures," Ulusoy says firmly. "You can't waste time with peacetime techniques."
Turkey's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment that would end a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, despite public protests.
Investigators in southwest Germany are continuing to search the ruins of a building where nine people, including five children, were killed in a weekend fire.
Police have refused to rule out arson as the cause of a blaze that killed at least nine people - including five children -- at a southwest Germany apartment building Sunday.
A gathering of Presidents and prime ministers looked impressive. But the unspoken question was whether this forum would lead to real change
At least four people have been killed and 52 injured -- six critically -- after a car bomb exploded in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday, prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
U.S., Turkish and Iraqi leaders all held talks Monday about Kurdish rebels using northern Iraq as a launchpad for cross-border attacks into Turkey.
Turkish helicopter gunships attacked abandoned villages inside Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, the first such airstrike since border tensions have recently escalated
The United States will help Iraq and Turkey crack down on Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, President Bush said Monday after meeting with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish Prime Minister comes to Washington with a slew of crises on his country's border with Iraq -- and the U.S., thanks to its own crises in the region, needs to make him happy
A battalion of about 800 militia forces moved closer to the Turkish border over the weekend, according to U.S. military officials familiar with the latest information from the region.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of applying a double standard in dealing with terrorism by its lack of action against Kurdish rebels who launch attacks against Turkey from northern Iraq.
Rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, will announce Monday a unilateral cease-fire following a deadly attack on Turkish forces, a spokesman for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told CNN.
After Kurdish separatists strike again, one U.S. ally appears to be moving closer to attacking another
Thousands of Kurds and their supporters poured into the streets of northern Iraqi cities on Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's approval of cross-border raids into Iraq.
Turkey moves closer to cross-border raids against Kurdish PKK fighters. But would prefer the Iraqis to shut them down
The Turkish parliament has approved a military incursion into Iraq to take on Kurdish rebels.
The Iraqi army has no plan to deploy its soldiers near the rugged Turkish-Iraqi border to take on the Kurdish rebels targeting Turkey, and Iraqi authorities are satisfied with the efforts by the Iraqi Kurdish regional authorities to deal with the militants there, a top Iraqi military official told CNN Wednesday.
Iraq on Tuesday urged Turkey to refrain from launching military action against Kurdish separatists based in Iraqi territory and called for urgent talks between the two nations to find a solution to the crisis.
Iraq's prime minister will hold emergency talks with his ministers Tuesday on the crisis with Turkey after the Turkish government asked for authority to launch cross-border raids against Kurdish separatists.
The newly reelected Recep Erdogan is tackling one of Turkey's most sensitive issues head on
New Turkish President Abdullah Gul approved a pro-EU reformist cabinet on Wednesday which reflected Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's aim to push ahead with stalled political and economic reforms needed to join the bloc.
With the election of its first President with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what it will bring is the question
Turkey's staunchly secular military said Monday that the strict line between Islam and the state was under attack by "centers of evil" -- a strong warning ahead of the expected election of a president with a background in political Islam.
Turkey might be the youngest circuit on the F1 race calendar, but it has rapidly become one of the most-loved, with Bernie Ecclestone even describing it as "the best race track in the world."
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul failed to win enough votes in the second round of a presidential election on Friday, an AK Party deputy told Reuters, but is expected to clinch the post next week.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, whose presidential nomination sparked massive protests three months ago, said Wednesday he would not rule out another run for the post.
Despite secularist fears of its Islamist roots, Erdogan's party gets even more support than it did five years ago
Voters in Turkey hailed Recep Tayyip Erdogan's emphatic re-election victory as a triumph for democracy, as the re-installed prime minister pledged to heal the wounds of a bitterly divisive campaign by "embracing all of Turkey with no discrimination."
Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted party claimed a resounding victory Sunday, winning nearly 47 percent of the vote in the country's parliamentary elections, electoral officials said.
Turkey's prime minister has promised to promote national unity and fight terrorism after his ruling Islamist party comfortably won parliamentary elections.
In the searing heat of an Anatolian afternoon, work continues busily on the vast building site that fills an entire block of Cankiri's otherwise quiet town center.
With parliamentary elections scheduled for July 22, Turkey has been embroiled in political crisis. Talk of constitutional amendments and a military coup is in the air, and the country's secular nationalists, who want to keep Turkey from adopting a more Islamist course, have taken to the streets.
After new Kurdish violence, the Prime Minister may defy the U.S. and order his troops to cross the border
The war drums are getting louder in Turkey, and they can be heard next door in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, and across the globe in Washington as well.
A powerful bomb explosion in the Turkish capital Tuesday killed five people and injured 60, the prime minister said
A powerful blast believed to be a bomb ripped through an Ankara shopping district Tuesday, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has withdrawn from the race to be Turkey's president after supporters were unable to gather the necessary two-thirds quorum in the parliament for a vote on his candidacy.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will address the country on Monday amid a deepening crisis prompted by a clash between secularists and Islamists over the country's political future.
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has vowed to continue in his bid to become the country's next president despite opposition from lawmakers, business leaders and military chiefs and a massive public demonstration in Istanbul on Sunday.
The European Union and the U.S. have urged the Turkish army to respect the country's democracy after military chiefs voiced concerns over the current presidential election.
Turkish armed forces have begun a spring offensive against rebels with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ahead of an expected surge in militant activity, the head of Turkey's military said Thursday.
The teenage suspect arrested for allegedly gunning down a controversial Turkish journalist has confessed he killed him and has no regrets, the official state-run news agency Anatolia reported Sunday.
Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of outspoken Turkish journalist Hrant Dink after a 32-hour search, authorities said Sunday.
Angry, saddened Turks took to the streets of Istanbul and other cities Friday night to mourn the death of a prominent Turkish journalist of Armenian descent who was gunned down earlier in the day in front of his newspaper office.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized a decision by the European Union this week to freeze talks on his country's entry into the union, saying it was "very unfair."
Snipers and police security teams took up positions around Ankara airport as Pope Benedict XVI arrived for his first visit to a Muslim country.
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday began his visit to Turkey -- his first to a Muslim country -- with a message urging "dialogue" between Christians and Muslims as he moved to ease anger over his perceived criticism of Islam.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accused of snubbing Pope Benedict on his first official trip to a Muslim country, says he has agreed to meet the pontiff when he arrives in Ankara on Tuesday.
A demonstration by about 50 people protesting Pope Benedict XVI's approaching visit to Turkey was broken up by police in Istanbul on Wednesday, CNN Turk reported.
Celebrations of a nation's founding are typically occasions that emphasize national unity. But Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 28, the 83rd anniversary of Kemal Atatürk's founding of the secular repu...
Police say they have arrested a man who allegedly fired a pistol into the air outside the Italian consulate in Istanbul, then shouted slogans in protest of Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit.
The international storm over cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammad published in European media gathered pace across the Islamic world Thursday with angry demonstrations and the shutting down of the EU office in Gaza City.
More than 2,300 people are attending the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
Western leaders are waiting to hear what Iran's new president will say at the United Nations about the country's nuclear program.
Iran's president has told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country is ready and willing to give peaceful nuclear technology to Islamic states, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.
Turkish police have shot and killed a suspected suicide bomber as he ran towards Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office, police said.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home Saturday to an ecstatic welcome, with hundreds of supporters waving Turkish and EU flags at the airport to celebrate the agreement to start EU membership talks next year.
After hours of intense negotiations, European leaders have agreed the European Union will begin membership talks with Turkey on October 3, 2005 -- a major step in Turkey's long pursuit of joining the EU.
Turkey's prime minister has lashed out at the European Union and said it "should not become involved in Turkey's internal affairs."
The train that derailed Thursday night east of Istanbul was traveling faster than it should have been, the Turkish transportation minister says.
At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured Thursday when a high-speed train derailed in northwestern Turkey, according to a health ministry official.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ruled out any "quick exit" from Iraq and vowed to keep British troops there until stability is restored.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has promised to support Turkey's push to join the European Union once the country implements proposed reforms.
President Bush sought Wednesday to reassure Turkey that the United States does not support an expansion of autonomy for Kurds in neighboring Iraq.
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