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Turkish MPs Enter Parliament with Headscarves
(ISTANBUL) — Four lawmakers wearing headscarves walked into Turkey’s parliament in Ankara on Thursday, marking the end of a longstanding ban on head coverings in the chamber. The female members of...
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Turkish Police Disperse Demo at Syrian Border
(ISTANBUL) — Police in southeastern Turkey fired tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators who were protesting the construction of a wall between Turkey and Syria. The mayor of the border town of Nusaybin...
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E.U., Turkey Resume Talks After 3 ½-Year Hiatus
(BRUSSELS) — The European Union is resuming membership talks with Turkey after they were stalled for 3 ½ years, mainly because of the country’s ongoing dispute with Cyprus. Turkey’s minister for...
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Turkish Police Subdue Man with Fake Bomb
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish police on Thursday subdued a man who arrived near Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office carrying a fake bomb. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the incident was not...
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Bulgaria Builds Fence on Border with Turkey
(SOFIA, Bulgaria) — Bulgarian authorities say they are constructing a fence on a 30-kilometer (19-mile) stretch of the country’s 274-kilometer (171-mile) border with Turkey in an effort to stop illegal...
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Live from ‘Occupied’ Gezi Park: In Istanbul, a New Turkish Protest Movement...
Last Friday, Ali Riza Gurs, manager of a local food business, saw the number of sit-in demonstrators at an Istanbul park swell, and spotted a problem: They were hungry and thirsty and would not leave...
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Erdo-gone? After Taksim, Turkish Leader’s Political Future May Hang in the...
By Sunday night, most of the businesses on Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street, seemed to have had their front teeth knocked in. ATM screens glared and winked stupidly from behind...
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Turkey’s Erdogan Battles Country’s Most Powerful Religious Movement
Both were religious men. In the early 1970s, Cemal Usak and Recep Tayyip Erdogan were classmates at the Istanbul Imam Hatip Lisesi, an Islamic high school. By the end of the decade, their career paths...
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Erdo-gone? After Taksim, Turkish Leader’s Political Future May Hang in the...
By Sunday night, most of the businesses on Istiklal Avenue, Istanbul’s biggest pedestrian street, seemed to have had their front teeth knocked in. ATM screens glared and winked stupidly from behind...
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Turkish Police Chiefs Fired After High-Profile Bribery Arrests
Five police chiefs have been fired in Turkey following dawn raids on Tuesday in which scores of people were arrested for alleged bribery, including sons of cabinet ministers. The police chiefs sacked...
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Group: Turkey Jails Most Journalists for 2nd Year
(NEW YORK) — A media watchdog says Turkey jailed more journalists than any other country for the second consecutive year, followed closely by Iran and China. The New York-based Committee to Protect...
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Turkey’s House of Cards Moment: Arrests and Scandal Signal a Crisis for Erdogan
In May 2011, a month before parliamentary elections that were to sweep him to power for the third time since 2002, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan triumphantly unveiled his “Two Cities”...
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2 Turkish Cabinet Ministers Resign
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Two Cabinet ministers resigned in Turkey on Wednesday, days after their sons were arrested in a sweeping corruption and bribery scandal that has targeted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
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Turkish Leader Lashes Out At Corruption Probe
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that he is the target of an unfolding graft investigation that’s led to the arrests of dozens of officials and shaken the Turkish leader’s hold on...
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Turkish Riot Police Clash with Demonstrators
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish riot police blasted opposition protesters with water cannons, tear gas and plastic bullets in Istanbul on Friday in scenes reminiscent of the summer’s mass anti-government...
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How Erdogan’s Troubles Are Good for Turkey
Translation does not do proper service to Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the full name of the party headed by Turkey’s besieged Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In English, it comes out as “Justice...
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Turkey Dismisses 350 Police Officers in Ankara
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says some 350 police officers have been removed from posts in the capital Ankara, as the government continues to battle a corruption scandal that has...
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Turkey Axes 350 Police Officers
Turkey removed 350 police officers from their posts in a midnight purge in Ankara on Tuesday, as the government continues its response to a sweeping public corruption probe. The 350 officers were part...
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Turkey Doctors Say Police, Govt Harassed Them
(ISTANBUL) — It was the height of Turkey‘s summer of upheaval, and riot police were hammering protesters. The tear gas at Istanbul’s Taksim Square was so thick that doctors trying to treat the wounded...
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Turkish Authorities Raid NGO Alleging Al-Qaeda Links
Turkish anti-terror forces have stormed the offices of an NGO providing humanitarian relief to Syrians affected by the ongoing civil war, claiming that the organization is aiding al-Qaeda. According to...
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