Turkey’s free media is under threat and the coup attempt earlier this year has angered the Erdogan further.
Turkey’s rescue workers believe they have found the bodies of the last miners who have died in the country’s worst industrial disaster.
Turkish riot police fired water cannon to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul on Saturday.
Turkish authorities have arrested more people over their alleged role in this month’s anti-government protests, a news report said.
Turkey’s deputy prime minister has given a nod of approval to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey.
A Turkish man has staged an eight-hour silent vigil on Istanbul’s Taksim Square, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead.
Turkish riot police stormed Gezi Park at the heart of two weeks of protest against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday.
Instead of talking to the generally peaceful demonstrators, the prime minister ordered their removal by force.
Hundreds of police and protesters have been injured when a demonstration to halt construction in a park in an Istanbul square grew into mass protests.