Istanbul (dpa) – The trial of Turkey's former military chief Ilker Basbug opened on Monday in Istanbul, with the former general facing charges of establishing a “terrorist group” to overthrow the government.
Turkey's state news agency Anatolia (...)
ISTANBUL (dpa): Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was Friday due to meet Khaled Mashal, the Syria-based leader of the Palestinian political party Hamas.
Turkey's state news agency Anatolian reported that the meeting was to take place at the (...)
ISTANBUL (dpa): Turkey has issued a warning to its nationals in Syria to leave the country due to the increasingly serious security situation, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
“Due to the serious security risks in certain Syrian cities it is (...)
ISTANBUL (dpa): A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release of four journalists imprisoned for over a year on charges that they were involved in an alleged coup plot.
Ahmet Sik, Nedim Sener, Sait Cakir and Coskun Musluk were released after a (...)
ISTANBUL (dpa): Employees of Swedish furniture giant IKEA met in Istanbul on Thursday to demand common working conditions across the group.
Organized by the Switzerland-based service sector trade union UNI Commerce Global Union, the meeting (...)
ISTANBUL (dpa): Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will fly directly from a nuclear security conference in the South Korean capital Seoul later this month to the Iranian capital Tehran, a spokeswoman for the Turkish Prime Minister's office said (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – An explosion outside the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's main Islamist business association, MUSIAD, injured five policemen Thursday.
Turkey's state TV news channel TRT Haber reported the explosion which occurred at around 8am (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish air force planes have conducted raids on targets in northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced in a statement on its website Sunday.
The raids took place on Saturday night on targets in the Zap and Hakurk districts, (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz plans to fly to Saudi Arabia on Saturday for meetings with Saudi Petroleum Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi, Turkey's Energy Ministry announced Friday.
Turkish officials were unavailable to confirm the (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey and the Arab League would propose a new initiative on Syria, Turkey's state news agency Anatolian reported Wednesday.
Davutoglu described the current situation in Syria as a (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkey on Monday ruled out the possibility that it might consider military intervention in neighboring Syria if the situation in the country does not improve.
“We will do whatever is necessary, but military intervention is not an (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkey's Foreign Ministry offered a scathing response Tuesday to comments by a candidate for the US republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry, that the country is run by “Islamic terrorists” and should be expelled from (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish customs officials impounded a fifth Iranian truck on Wednesday, following four seized the previous day on suspicion of carrying military materials to Syria, state news agency Anatolian reported.
A foreign ministry (...)
Istanbul (dpa) – The arrest and detention in the early hours of Friday morning of the former head of Turkey's military, General Ilker Basbug, signals an increase in tensions between the government and the military that looks certain to escalate (...)