Turkey News

A Turkish court sentenced prominent independent MP Leyla Zana to 10 years in prison on Thursday on charges of spreading Kurdish propaganda.

Talking to journalists on Friday, Ruben Safrastyan said Turkey's policy has recently becoming unpredictable not only for Armenia but also Ankara's NATO allies.

Turkey says waters off the coast of war-divided Cyprus where Greek Cypriots plan to explore for natural gas lie within its continental shelf, sharpening multi-sided disputes over major fields under the eastern Mediterranean.

There was a mass food poisoning at a hospital in the Turkish city of Erzurum, CNN Turk reported.

ANKARA, Turkey &#8212 Turkey's state-run news agency says a prosecutor has proposed charging an internationally known Turkish pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter.

A suicide bombing in central Turkey on Friday morning left one person dead and 17 people wounded, the country's prime minister and interior minister said.

A 25-year-old upstate New York man has admitted driving his motorcycle at 170 mph as he tried to get away from police who caught him speeding on the Thruway.

First he cried. Then Brian Banks - exonerated of a rape conviction that cost him five years in prison - walked outside the courthouse and seized the moment of freedom he had dreamed of for so long.

A car bomb driven by two suspected suicide attackers exploded outside a police station in central Turkey, killing at least one policeman and wounding 11 people, the interior minister said.

A suicide car bomb blast outside a police station in central Turkish province of Kayseri on Friday has left an officer killed and 20 other people wounded.

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An earthquake in Turkey has made cats depressed and suicidal according to at least one professor.

After a Turkish military attack last December left 34 Kurds from a village called Uludere -- mistakenly thought to be Kurdistan Workers' Party militants -- dead, Ankara hoped to put the matter to rest by paying the victims' families compensation and promising an investigation into the incident.

The text, written on animal hide, is thought to be an authentic version of the Gospel of Barnabas, one of Jesus's disciples 'Laughable' Iranian report claims the book states that Jesus was never crucified and He predicted the coming of the Prophet Muhammad A leather-bound religious text, thought to date from the 5th century but discovered only 12 ... (more)

With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons.

A DECORATED Army veteran has shown he has lost none of his bravery and skill after base jumping from a 236-metre building to raise awareness for the Royal British Legion.

A Turkish lawyer said on Thursday that Israel had offered to pay $6 million to victims of Israel's storming of a Gaza-bound Turkish aid flotilla to settle lawsuits against the Israeli military.

A military court in Somalia's region of Somaliland has sentenced 17 people to death for attacking a military base.

Judith Miller reporting from Camp Apaydin, near Antakya, Turkey - There are few signs of a military presence at this remote refugee camp 20 kilometers from Antakya, known in ancient times as Antioch, where the followers of Jesus were first called Christians.

Iraqi Kurdistan plans oil pipeline to Turkey By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL -The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has announced a plan to construct an oil pipeline to Turkey with a volume of 1 million barrels per day , move hinting at tectonic shifts in the geo-economics and associated geopolitics of greater Southwest Asia.