Turkey’s secular establishment vowed on Thursday to campaign for a "no" vote in a September referendum on constitutional reforms.
Turkish warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Monday, the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party and an Iraqi Kurdish official said.
Hundreds of activists detained during a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla were kicked out of Israel on Wednesday.
Shock and outrage swept the globe on Monday after Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla of aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip.
Turkey told Israel that it would "suffer the consequences" after activists were killed when Israeli commandos boarded a convoy of aid ships.
McLaren said on Sunday that they hoped they can carry the momentum of winning the Turkish Grand Prix to Canada in two weeks’ time.
Iskender Usta could little have imagined that the delicious new lamb dish he had invented would one day be served around the world.
Turkey’s government plans to pass constitutional amendments that have pitted it against the judiciary in a week to 10 days.
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/ 18 January 2010
The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday.
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/ 23 October 2009
A Greek café in the heart of Turkey signals a thaw in relations.
Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannon for a second day to break up protests against the IMF and World Bank on Wednesday.
Turkish riot police on Tuesday used tear gas and water canons to break up a rally by 2 000 anti-IMF protesters in Istanbul
The global economy is on unsteady legs, the World Bank warned on Friday, saying that 2010 would be ”a highly uncertain economic year”.
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/ 15 September 2009
A journalist who published a joke suggesting Turkey’s leaders are corrupt was handed a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday.
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/ 10 September 2009
A Turkish woman accused of cutting off her lover’s penis must wait 18 months while a court determines whether his re-attached penis still functions.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s claim of personal success in sealing Russian-Turkish energy deals was exaggerated, Turkey said on Friday.
Barack Obama’s call on Turkey to help resolve conflicts from the Middle East to Afghanistan is an endorsement the secular democracy has long sought.
Barack Obama ended his trip to Muslim Turkey on Tuesday by calling for peace and dialogue with Islam and the creation of a Palestinian state.
Turkish police have received US intelligence that militants from al-Qaeda could be plotting attacks on foreign targets in Turkey.
A senior Turkish journalist was arrested on Friday for suspected involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the country’s Islamist-rooted government.
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/ 6 February 2009
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq this week, the Anatolia news agency reported on Friday, quoting an army spokesperson.
A yoga hideaway in Turkey that pleases his partner, five-year-old daughter and bank manager – Kevin Rushby is in heaven.
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/ 15 October 2008
Passengers overpowered an apparently drunken man who on Wednesday tried to hijack a Turkish Airlines flight en route to Russia.
Heads of state and other dignitaries from African countries and Turkey started a cooperation summit in Istanbul on Monday.
Seventeen people died and 150 were wounded on Sunday when two bombs exploded in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, the city’s governor said.
A headscarf-wearing student faces a possible jail sentence of four and a half years for saying she does not like the state’s founding hero, Atatürk.
Eighty-six people have been indicted on charges of plotting the violent overthrow of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Three gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed on Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint outside the US consulate in Istanbul.
The Turkish legal system is becoming a hazardous battleground for the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party and its secular opponents.
Turkey’s bid to beat Germany and reach the final of Euro 2008 is in danger of being wrecked by injuries and suspensions.
Erdogan pleads with Islamists and secular judges to avoid clash, writes Robert Tait.
A decision by Turkey’s top court to annul a government reform which lifted a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities is a blow to freedom of religion and other fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.