Tayyip Erdogan

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey replaced the pro-Kurdish party mayors of the southeastern cities of Diyarbakir, Van and Mardin on Monday over terrorism-related investigations, appointing the state governors in those provinces in their place, the Interior Ministry…

Once you locate the little town of Devrek, deep in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, it is not difficult to find the road known as Mesut Ozil Avenue. The towns leaders have designed it that way, erecting a giant billboard which serves as a tribute to their favo…

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo’s special prosecutors are investigating the role of 22 police officers in the last year’s arrest and extradition of six Turkish nationals, a move activists called human rights violation, the prosecutors said on Thursday. The six …

Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has said he is ready to find a solution on the Kurdish issue, and that he could stop the conflict between the Turkish state and rebel fighters within a week, his lawyers said in a statement. According to the statem…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish human rights news website discovered it had been removed from a list of 136 web sites and social media accounts banned by a court, the website’s lawyer said on Thursday. Bianet, a Turkish news website focusing on human rights …

The Syrian government has called the agreement between Turkey and the United States regarding a safe zone in northern Syria a "blatant attack" on the country's sovereignty. On Wednesday, Turkey and the US reached a deal to establish a joint operations centre…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had threatened a military incursion into northeastern Syria to secure the border region from Syrian-Kurdish forces. Turkey regards those forces as a threat because of their links to the P.K.K., which is waging an insur…

The Turkish Minister of Defence Hulusi Akar has said talks with the United States about averting a military intervention in the north of Syria had been "positive". "We witnessed with satisfaction that our partners grew closer to our position. The meetings we…

Shortly before his death in 1955, Albert Einstein co-authored a report on avoiding nuclear war, which led to the Pugwash Conferences, and helped create non-proliferation agreements.Credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Michael Gove, now a senior minis…

Shortly before his death in 1955, Albert Einstein co-authored a report on avoiding nuclear war, which led to the Pugwash Conferences, and helped create non-proliferation agreements.Credit: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Michael Gove, now a senior minis…