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Two Kurds protesting against the closure of a pro-Kurdish party were shot dead and seven were wounded on Tuesday when shopkeepers attacked them in the south-eastern Turkish town of Mus, security officials said.
Washington - The United States Friday urged Turkey to advance political freedoms for all of its citizens after Turkey's Constitutional Court banned the country's largest Kurdish political party. The court ruled earlier in the day that the Democrati...
Banning the Democratic Society Party is a blow to efforts to resolve the Kurdish issue and ensure minority rights in Turkey.As a matter of urgency, the government should revise the constitution and Law on Political Parties, so that this kind of ban won’t be possible in the future.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Israel there would be an “earthquake-like response” from Turkey should Israel fly unmanned spy planes through Turkish airspace into Iran, Milliyet said.
1:25 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: I want to extend the warmest of welcomes to Prime Minister Erdogan. I'm glad that I, personally, and the American people have a chance to reciprocate the wonderful hospitality that was extended to me when I visited Turkey in April. As I said when I had the great honor of addressing the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, I am strongly committed to creating the best ...
ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Gunmen opened fire on a military unit in northern Turkey Monday, killing seven soldiers and wounding four more in what authorities described as an ambush.
A bipartisan group of 10 senators wrote Turkey’s U.S. ambassador expressing concern about the “downward trend of relations between Turkey and Israel this past year.”
Istanbul - In many ways, Turkish-European Union relations had little elsewhere to go but up in 2009. The previous year, which saw Ankara wrapped up in domestic distractions, particularly a court case which could have led to a ban of the ruling libera...
Influenced by Europe and Asia, Turkey is often characterized as the quintessential crossroads of Eas
A news report says 15 workers were trapped when a shaft collapsed in a mine in western Turkey.
ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The prison conditions for Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, are in line with detention standards, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
Regardless of whether it is at full strength, Team USA will not have to face Spain, Greece or Argentina in the opening round of the World Championship next summer in Turkey.
Nineteen workers were killed when an explosion caused a cave-in at a privately-owned coal mine in northwestern Turkey, officials said Friday.
Iranian and Turkish military forces fought with guerrilla separatists in the Kurdistan Workers' Party, killing nine in border skirmishes. Iranian and Turkish forces engaged members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, during skirmishes along the Turkish border with Iran and Iraq.
The Turkish prison conditions of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan meet international standards, the head of a parliamentary commission insisted Friday, after complaints from the jailed leader.
Brussels - Cyprus on Tuesday demanded a freeze on Turkey's European Union accession talks because of its blockade of Cypriot vessels, throwing a meeting of EU foreign ministers into disarray, diplomats in Brussels said. EU member states are keen to e...
