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What Turkey's Booze Crackdown Means For You

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 05.24.2013 | Travel

ANKARA, Turkey -- A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on ...

Obama Press Conference Takes Awkward Turn

The Huffington Post | Gabrielle Dunkley | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

Things got awkward during President Barack Obama's joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayipp Erdogan on Thursday. While addre...

Turkey Bombing Death Toll Rises To 51

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 05.14.2013 | World

ANKARA, Turkey — Four more people have been detained in connection with two car bomb attacks that killed dozens in a Turkish town near the Syria...

Victimized, Vulnerable, Hegemonious, Insensitive: Prime Minister and The Pianist

Yavuz Baydar | Posted 04.17.2013 | World
Yavuz Baydar

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).

Turkish PM: Normalization Between Israel And Turkey Won't Be Quick

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 03.24.2013 | World

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested "normalization" of ties with Israel would take time, hinting that Turkey wante...

Lesbian Moms Threaten To Overshadow Turkish PM's Dutch Visit

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.15.2013 | Gay Voices

AMSTERDAM — A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy's biological parents said on television in Turkey t...

Verbal Combat: The Rise of Israel's Words Warriors

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.04.2013 | World
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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.

Turkish PM: Assad Is A 'Mute Devil'

AP | Posted 02.25.2013 | World

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, Weary of the EU, Tiptoes Towards the Shanghai Five

Yavuz Baydar | Posted 03.31.2013 | World
Yavuz Baydar

Turkey's popular, charismatic and impulsive prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, never ceases to surprise. His recent bombshell was about Turky's flirtation with the "Shanghai Five," The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

Turn That Key Mr. Erdogan

Endy Zemenides | Posted 03.27.2013 | World
Endy Zemenides

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.

Turkey Haunted by Hubris

Conn Hallinan | Posted 01.13.2013 | World
Conn Hallinan

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?

Turkey Is Seeking Leadership of the Islamic World

Ed Koch | Posted 01.05.2013 | New York
Ed Koch

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.

Turkey Condemns U.N. Over Syria Inaction

Reuters | Posted 12.13.2012 | World

* Erdogan says U.N. Security Council inaction encouraging Assad * Syrian gov't forces hit rebels with air power, artillery ...

Turkey, Syria and the Geopolitics of Identity

Peter Henne | Posted 12.05.2012 | World
Peter Henne

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?

Turkey Convicts Over 300 Military Officers Over Failed Coup

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 09.21.2012 | World

ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish court on Friday convicted 326 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, of plotting to overthrow ...

Abortion Debate Renewed After Pregnant Turkish Woman Beheads Alleged Rapist

Posted 09.06.2012 | Crime

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 PM Lashes Out At Assad

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 11.05.2012 | World

BEIRUT — Turkey accused Syria of "state terrorism" Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war, and Iran came unde...

Turkey's Abortion Debate Rekindled By Gruesome Decapitation

Ceylan Yeginsu | Posted 11.04.2012 | World
Ceylan Yeginsu

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.

Turkey's Syria Dilemma

Elcin Poyrazlar | Posted 10.01.2012 | World
Elcin Poyrazlar

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.

Democracy and Bread: Turkey's Link Between the EU and the Middle East

Egemen Bagis | Posted 07.03.2012 | World
Egemen Bagis

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.

Turkey Deploys Troops On Border With Syria

Reuters | Posted 08.27.2012 | World

By Mehmet Emin Caliskan ISKENDERUN, Turkey, June 28 (Reuters) - Turkish troops and military vehicles deployed towards the border wit...

Turkey Warns Syria: Beware Our 'Wrath'

Reuters | Oliver Holmes and Jon Hemming | Posted 08.26.2012 | World

By Oliver Holmes and Jon Hemming BEIRUT/ANKARA, June 26 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told Syria to beware the wrath of Turkey ...

Women Protest Turkey's Abortion Laws

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 08.03.2012 | World

ANKARA, Turkey -- Thousands of demonstrators on Sunday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abor...

Turkey Looks To Curb Abortion, C-Sections

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 07.29.2012 | World

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's health minister said Tuesday that the government wants to reduce the number of abortions, days after the prime minister lik...

Turkish PM To Syrian Refugees: 'Your Victory Is Close'

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.06.2012 | World

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...