ANKARA, Turkey -- A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on ...
Intensely busy, intellectually engaged and emotionally very tense, Turkey is in the midst of two seemingly parallel and synched reform processes: a new constitution and a peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested "normalization" of ties with Israel would take time, hinting that Turkey wante...
The righteousness of Israel's cause can be established in open argument and Israel can be victorious in the marketplace of ideas. The time has come to passionately engage Israel's enemies in verbal combat.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -- Turkey's prime minister denounced Syria's leader Sunday, calling him a "mute devil" for carrying out attacks on his o...
Turkey's popular, charismatic and impulsive prime minister, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan, never ceases to surprise. His recent bombshell was about Turky's flirtation with the "Shanghai Five," The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The reopening of Halki should be a matter of global urgency. The historic seat of the one of the world's largest and oldest Churches is being slowly pushed towards extinction.
Two years ago, Turkey was on its way to being a player in Central Asia, a major power broker in the Middle East, and a driving force in international politics. What happened?
If the European Union and the United States had not urged Turkey to end the Turkish army's role as defender of the secularity of the Turkish state, the world, and certainly Israel, would be a safer place today. This a tragic example of unintended consequences.
The Syrian shelling of Akcakale -- a Turkish village on the Syrian border -- and Turkey's military response against Syrian targets was shocking. How did the Turkish-Syrian relations go from close-and-getting-closer to on-the-brink-of-war?
ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish court on Friday convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow ...
A 26-year-old Turkish woman, who was impregnated by her rapist, reportedly shot and beheaded her alleged attacker to protect her honor. The case has f...
Turkey's dilemma on abortion continues with the added complexity of whether the right should be granted to a rape victim who also happens to be a murder suspect.
The latest developments in Northern Syria have agitated Turkey, which has discovered that its most important domestic security concern is now tangled up with the fallout from the Arab revolutions.
We can not and will not condone any political system that falls short of addressing the full democratic aspirations of its people. This includes the brotherly Egyptian people and certainly the oppressed and proud Syrian people.
ANKARA, Turkey -- Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abor...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's health minister said Tuesday that the government wants to reduce the number of abortions, days after the prime minister lik...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Treated to a hero's welcome, Turkey's prime minister met Syrian refugees Sunday for the first time since his country opened its door...