ERDOGAN PLEDGES TO BOOST TURKEY-TUNISIA TRADE TIES

The Turkish president met his Tunisian counterpart, Beji Caid Essebsi, at Carthage presidential palace in the capital Tunis on Wednesday morning... READ MORE›

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ERDOGAN OFFERS CITIZENSHIP TO SYRIAN AND IRAQI REFUGEES

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that some Syrian and Iraqi refugees who pass a screening process will be granted Turkish citizenship... READ MORE›

AFTER ONE OF ITS WORST EVER TERROR ATTACKS, TURKEY IS CENSORING MEDIA AND TWITTER

The Turkish government has censored news coverage of the terror attack in Ankara as Twitter and other social media sites went down across the country... READ MORE›

TURKEY ENTERS SYRIA TO REMOVE PRECIOUS SULEYMAN SHAH TOMB

Suleyman Shah, who lived from about 1178 to 1236, was grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire, Osman I... READ MORE›

DEADLY ANKARA ATTACK NOT ENOUGH TO UNIFY A POLARIZED TURKEY

On political issues, one of the sharpest divides in Turkey is on foreign policy and the government's involvement in Syria... READ MORE›

TURKEY BOMB 'MASSACRE' KILLS 30 AND INJURES OVER 100 AT PRO-KURDISH PEACE RALLY

Like other terror attacks, the one at the Ankara train station targets our unity, togetherness, brotherhood and future, Mr Erdogan said... READ MORE›

TURKEY COUP ATTEMPT: STATE OF EMERGENCY ANNOUNCED

This measure is in no way against democracy, the law and freedoms, said Mr Erdogan after announcing the state of emergency... READ MORE›

PRESSURE GROWS ON MERKEL AMID STRAIN FROM MIGRANTS

9 showed support slipping slightly for Ms. Merkel's handling of the refugee crisis... READ MORE›

GERMANY EXPECTS UP TO 1.5 MILLION MIGRANTS IN 2015

Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council who met Mr Erdogan yesterday, said he expected Turkey to act... READ MORE›

HOPES FADE FOR 18 TRAPPED COAL MINERS

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cancelled his Republic Day celebrations to visit the mine... READ MORE›

CAMERON WANTS BRITAIN TO DO MORE AGAINST ISIS

Britain has provided logistics air-to-air refueling and surveillance Mr. Cameron said... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT ERDOGAN SAYS BRUSSELS ATTACKER WAS CAUGHT IN TURKEY AND DEPORTED LAST YEAR

One of the Brussels attackers was caught in Turkey in June last year and deported to the Netherlands, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said... READ MORE›

FIRST STEP TO 'NEW TURKEY' OR SHAMELESS POWER-GRAB?

There are 18 items in the constitutional reform package Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party AKP want to see become law in Turkey... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CHILDREN DEAD AFTER FERRY HITS INFLATABLE DINGHY

A Turkish coastguard source told Reuters a boat carrying 46 refugees towards the Greek island of Lesbos capsized on Sunday after the crash... READ MORE›

HUMBLE POPE TO VISIT LOFTY TURKISH PALACE

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will welcome the pope to a newly built presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey... READ MORE›

GAY RIGHTS CELEBRATED IN US, CRACKED DOWN ON IN TURKEY

While homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey, unlike many other Muslim countries, homophobia remains widespread... READ MORE›

CLASHES OUTSIDE TURKEY'S WASHINGTON EMBASSY INJURE SEVERAL

WATCH Clashes outside Turkey's Washington embassy injure several... READ MORE›

Mr Haines has worked in humanitarian aid since 1999, helping victims of conflict in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East... READ MORE›

FIGHTING IN SYRIAN TOWN OF KOBANI SPILLS OVER BORDER INTO TURKEY VIDEO

Five members of the same family were wounded when a missile from fighting in Syria hit a house in Turkey on Sunday... READ MORE›

NEW TURKISH CABINET INCLUDES OPPOSITION, BUT LITTLE POLICY CHANGE SEEN

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu appointed nationalist and pro-Kurdish opposition politicians to an interim power-sharing cabinet on Friday, but left his finance and economy ministers unchanged... READ MORE›

SYRIAN ARMY SAYS IT'S CLOSING IN ON ISLAMIC STATE IN PALMYRA

Islamic State is fighting the Kurdish YPG militia along the northern border with Turkey and with the Syrian military around Hasaka city to the east... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS OF SYRIAN REFUGEES 'THREATEN WITH DEPORTATION BACK TO SYRIA'

Hundreds of Syrian refugees fear they could be sent back by Turkish authorities after they were rescued by the country's coastguard... READ MORE›

PM AHMET DAVUTOLU BEGINS TALKS ON FORMING COALITION GOVERNMENT

Alliance between DavutoA?lus AKP, which is rooted in Islamism, and secular Republican Peoples party would have unassailable majority but deep rivalries... READ MORE›

ERDOA?ANS AKP WINS TURKEY ELECTION

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic- conservative Justice and Development party AKP triumphed with a return to single-party government in national elections this Sunday... READ MORE›

ISIL 'SELFIES' ARE FUELLING RADICALISATION, UN EXPERT WARNS

Asked what he meant by digital sympathisers Mr Evans said the presence of young people online who are posting selfies or tweeting in favour of Isil... READ MORE›

TURKEY TAKES IN UIGHUR REFUGEES; ANGERS CHINA

Earlier last month, when Thailand's military rulers, under pressure from Beijing, forcibly deported nearly 100 Uighurs back to China, protests erupted in Turkey... READ MORE›

TURKISH POLICE DETAIN 'GULENISTS' IN IZMIR

'Media intimidation' Turkey's Western allies have voiced deep concerns over media intimidation in the run-up to the election that returned Erdogan's party to power... READ MORE›

U.S. STAGES FIRST STRIKE AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE TARGET IN SYRIA FROM TURKEY BASE

Washington has long been pushing its historic ally Turkey to step up the fight against Islamic State, something Ankara had until recently been reluctant to do... READ MORE›

PRESIDENT RECEP ERDOGAN SENDS NATIONWIDE TEXT MESSAGE URGING LOYALTY

Turkish officials have demanded that the United States extradite him to face justice in Turkey... READ MORE›

TURKEY'S PRESIDENT HINTS STATE OF EMERGENCY COULD BE EXTENDED

As you know France declared an initial state of emergency for three months then prolonged it for another three months... READ MORE›

CAN PRESIDENT ERDOGAN'S AKP CONFOUND THE CRITICS?

Mr Erdogan has undoubtedly presided over a period of unprecedented stability and economic growth in Turkey... READ MORE›