Tayyip Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Turkish presidency has said, days after a Turkish convoy was nearly hit by air raids in the Syrian province of Idlib. Friday's announce…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host his Russian and Iranian counterparts for a summit on Syria in Ankara on September 16, according to the presidential spokesman. “The president will host a three-way summit with the participation of Russia and I…

Syria's Foreign Ministry has said it is opening a "humanitarian corridor" for civilians to leave the rebel-held northwestern region of Idlib and northern Hama, where the army has advanced against armed fighters with fierce air and ground attacks. The ministr…

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating in southeast Turkey on Tuesday against the ousting of three Kurdish mayors five months after they were elected. Ankara replaced the pro-Kurdish P…

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…