Shortly before sweeping to power, Tayyip Erdogan pledged at the tomb of state founder Ataturk to revive a secular democracy he said was losing the nation’s trust. Turkey would now get the leadership it deserved. Militant secularists saw his...

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a 62-year former civil servant, was elected chairman on Saturday following the resignation of veteran party leader Deniz Baykal over a sex tape scandal. The CHP delegates elected the new party assembly on Sunday. While courting the...

The leader of Turkey’s principal opposition party has resigned following the circulation of a video purporting to show him having an affair. The video allegedly shows Deniz Baykal, who led the secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP), in...

A NATO helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan Tuesday with Turkish soldiers on board, but the military alliance denied that anyone had been killed. The military chopper came down on the outskirts of Wardak town, capital of the province of the same...

A classic Tintin cartoon in which characters smoked pipes and cigars cost a television station $33,000 (21,099 pounds), after Turkey’s state media regulator fined it for violating an anti-tobacco law that bans smoking on air. The Higher Board of...

A methane gas explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey killed 19 miners, federal officials said Friday. Three survivors were pulled from the mine after the explosion Thursday in the town of Mustafakemalpasa, in the western province of...

Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution. But she was taken aback when several of...

Turkish police have rescued nine women from an Istanbul villa where they were allegedly held captive after applying for a reality show, but instead found they were being told to wear bikinis and fight each other for the benefit of an internet...