Turkey quake victims struggle in Europe’s cold
Record low temperatures and heavy snow are making life even more miserable for more than 140,000 Turkish quake survivors still living in tents or temporary homes. As Europe battles a deep freeze that has killed More...
Turkey’s Erdogan attacks France on genocide law
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attacked the French parliament on Tuesday for passing a “discriminatory and racist” bill which makes it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman More...
Turkey: Activists mark journalist’s death 5 yrs on
Protesters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of a Turkish-Armenian journalist’s murder as outrage grows over a trial which failed to shed light on alleged official negligence or even collusion. Human More...
Turkey: Ex-military chief arrested over plot
A former military chief was jailed Friday, accused of leading a terror organization and conspiring to bring down the government, his lawyer said, becoming the most senior officer to face trial in a series of investigations More...
Turkey warns against Shi’ite-Sunni Cold War
Middle East powerhouse Turkey on Wednesday warned against a sectarian Cold War in the region and said rising Sunni-Shi’ite tensions would be “suicide” for the whole region. “Let me openly More...
Turkey: funerals held after air strike
Thousands of mourners gathered in southeast Turkey on Friday for the funerals of 35 Kurdish civilians who were killed in a botched raid by Turkish military jets that mistook the group for Kurdish rebels based in More...
Turkey sanctions France over genocide bill
Turkey has reacted with fury to a vote by French lawmakers to outlaw denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide, immediately cutting military ties and warning of “irreparable damage” to relations. “This More...
French lower house backs Armenia genocide bill
France took the first step on Thursday to criminalizing the denial of genocide, including the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, a move that risks damaging Paris’ diplomatic and commercial relations More...
Turkey detains 40 for alleged rebel links
Turkish police on Tuesday detained some 40 people, including a number of journalists, as part of a growing investigation into a Kurdish group that prosecutors accuse of links to Kurdish rebels, the country’s More...
Turkey warns France over Armenian “genocide” law
Turkey warned France on Friday their political and economic relations would suffer grave consequences if the French parliament passed a draft law making it illegal to deny the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the More...