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Sudan's indicted president denied Wednesday that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur — and offered hope for an end to the violence and the dawn of reconciliation by promising free and fair elections next year.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that regional nations should fill the security vacuum when U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq but said there was no prospect of sending in Iranian forces.
Shells fired from a mortar-like mechanism near a municipal government building in Istanbul slightly injured three people, the city's governor reportedly said.
A number of suspects in last week's deadly bombings in Istanbul that killed 17 people have been arrested, Turkey's interior minister announced Saturday.
The role of Turkey's governing party in promoting European Union membership proves that it is not anti-secular, a party member said Thursday.
Hooligans can expect short stays in jail at the European Championship.
Turkey's parliament approved a government-backed proposal Wednesday to soften a law restricting free speech that has been used to prosecute intellectuals and dissidents.
Turkey's chief prosecutor asked its highest court Friday to disband the ruling party for attacking the country's secular traditions, including a ban on women's head scarves in universities, a court official said.
Thousands marked the one-year anniversary of a Turkish Armenian journalist's killing Saturday, placing red carnations on the spot where he was gunned down in daylight and demanding justice in the case.
Authorities released four suspects Sunday who had been detained after a deadly bomb attack in a predominantly Kurdish city of southwest Turkey, a local official said.
Police were interrogating four people detained after a bomb attack targeting Turkish soldiers in a passing bus killed five civilians and wounded 68 other people, a prosecutor said Friday.
Turkey's prime minister defended the recent bombing of Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq as military jets pummeled the area with fresh attacks on Sunday.
An initial investigation shows that pilot error caused the Nov. 30 crash of an Atlasjet plane that killed all 57 people on board, Turkish news media reported Tuesday.
Eight Turkish troops taken hostage by Kurdish rebels after a deadly ambush have been charged with neglecting their duty during the clash, a defense attorney said Sunday.
Kurdish rebels released eight Turkish soldiers Sunday on the eve of a meeting between the Turkish prime minister and President Bush aimed at averting a cross-border offensive against guerrilla bases in northern Iraq.
Kurdish rebels released eight Turkish soldiers Sunday on the eve of a meeting between the Turkish prime minister and President Bush that aims to avert a cross-border offensive against guerrilla bases in northern Iraq.
Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.
Two senior U.S. officials promised Saturday that they would convey to Iraq Turkey's unease over Kurdish rebels in the north but they also expressed concern over the possibility of a Turkish military offensive in the region.
Two senior U.S. officials promised Thursday that they would convey to Iraq Turkey's unease over Kurdish rebels in the north but they also expressed concern over the possibility of a Turkish military offensive in the region.
Acknowledging "a difficult time" in relations with Turkey, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday appealed to the U.S. ally for restraint against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and in reaction to a genocide resolution in Congress.
The son of a journalist killed earlier this year after calling the massacre of Armenians genocide was convicted Thursday of insulting Turkey's identity for republishing his father's remarks.
Turkey ordered its ambassador in Washington to return to Turkey for consultations over a U.S. House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Turkey's military issued a stern warning on Monday about the threat to secularism on the eve of an expected triumph of the Islamic-oriented government: the election of a loyal — and devout — president.
More than six months after the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist, 18 suspects went on trial Monday in a case widely seen as a test of whether the country's judiciary will be able to investigate allegations of official negligence in the slaying.
The sign at the edge of one of Turkey's new security zones says trespassing poses a "danger to life," and the only vehicles that venture beyond it are armored ones ferrying soldiers into battle with Kurdish rebels.
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