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Turkish leaders on Thursday reproached a U.S. congressional panel decision to approve a bill describing the World War I-era killings of Armenians as genocide.Despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials and opposition by U.S. President George W. Bush, th...
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A U.S. House committee approved a resolution calling the 1915 massacres of Armenians genocide on Wednesday, brushing aside White House warnings that it would do "great harm" to ties with NATO ally Turkey, a key supporter in the Iraq war.The Hous...
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Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack by Kurdish rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeast of the country. Turkish troops responded by shelling an area near the Iraqi border to try to stop the rebel...
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Turkish and American officials have been pressing lawmakers to reject a measure next week that would declare the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.On Friday, the issue reached the highest levels as President Bush and Turkish Prime Minister ...
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President George W. Bush expressed his opposition today to a congressional resolution on the World War I-era massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, during a conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A U.S. House resolution would ask...
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Many Turks are proud of their country's modern, secular tradition. At least for now, by law, no religion is allowed to dominate or shape the activities or policies of the government, the legal sector or the education system. Turkey's army has long...
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Turkey’s new president on Wednesday called for changes to a law that makes it a crime to insult Turkish identity — legislation that the European Union wants Turkey to rescind.Among those who have been prosecuted under the law have been the Nob...
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Some 50 prominent Europeans, including former politicians and intellectuals, called on the European Union to pursue a more coherent and vigorous foreign policy to promote European interests and values and said the 27-nation bloc must keep its promises mad...
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Turkish officials have accused Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, of excluding the right of hot pursuit from a list of measures to be taken against militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) based...
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The United Nations remains the only platform for resolving the Cyprus problem, Turkey’s Prime Minister told the General Assembly today as he called on the members of the international community to remove all of their restrictions on Turkish Cypriots...
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Iraq and Turkey will sign a security agreement on Friday to fight Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq.The accord was first discussed on Wednesday in talks between visiting Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani and Turkey's Besir Atal...
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European Union officials have been accused of "political geography" after Turkey, but not the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, disappeared from a map of Europe designed for new euro coins.A common design for the "tails side" of euro coins...
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Until several years ago, international strategists would argue that a war over water resources would inevitably emerge in the Middle East. But the recent change in Turkey's international water policy seems to discredit this thesis.Turkey has adopted a...
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, insisted on Tuesday that the ban on women wearing headscarves on the campuses of the country’s state universities should be lifted as part of a proposed constitution.Mr Erdogan said Turkey had to ...
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The Turkish police found a van packed with an explosive chemical in a multi-story parking lot in the capital city of Ankara on Tuesday, the city's top official said.The Mercedes van was found by bomb-sniffing dogs as part of heavy security measures in...
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As Germans struggle to make sense of the terrorist plot foiled this week, they are learning that their good Muslims - the large Turkish immigrant population here - may not all be so good. One of the three militants arrested Tuesday and accused of planning...
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After nearly a century of strictly secular rule, Turkey last week got a new president, Abdullah Gul, who is strongly disliked by the Turkish military because he is an observant Muslim with a background in Islamic politics. In his first speech as president...
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Turkey's new president has approved a cabinet with a mix of AK party and secular members aimed at pushing stalled political and economic changes necessary to win entry to the EU.Abdullah Gul, whose background in political Islam had angered the country...
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Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was sworn in as Turkey's president on Tuesday despite the objections of a powerful military that fears a creeping subversion of the country's secular order under the former Islamist.Gul, who enjoys popular support, is...
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Turkey's staunchly secular armed forces said yesterday that secularism in the country was under attack by "centres of evil", in a strong warning a day ahead of the expected election to the presidency of Abdullah Gul, a former Islamist.Genera...