Voters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir turned out in droves on Sunday, queuing up in the shadow of armoured police vehicles to cast their ballots against what many said was state intimidation, [ More … ]
Turkey holds snap parliamentary elections on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries, that could profoundly impact the divided country’s trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. Polls that could end more than a decade of single-party [ More … ]
The latest American plans to aid Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State hit an obstacle as Turkish officials summoned the American ambassador to express concern that the United States was providing new support to Kurdish [ More … ]
Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet after Turkey’s worst ever bomb attack, writes Reuters in an analysis. “Modern Turkey’s most divisive leader has in the past had [ More … ]
Thousands of mourner gathered in Turkey today to show their respect for the victims of the twin bombing in Ankara on Saturday morning. “We lost many beautiful people,†Ahmet said as tearful eulogies were given [ More … ]
There is still no claims of responsibility for the attack in the Turkish capital Ankara, that left nearly 100 protestors dead. Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, exposing a mosaic of domestic political perils, said Islamic State, [ More … ]
Moments of one of the blasts. Twin explosions outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday morning targeted hundreds of people who had gathered to protest against violence between authorities and the Kurdish militant group, the [ More … ]
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