Turkey suffered one of its worst agricultural cold snaps in more than a decade in April, with sharp drops in temperatures ...

Former Another Level singer Dane Bowers has revealed his dramatic transformation after jetting to Turkey for a new set of veneers and a hair transplant. The 45-year-old pop star, who rose to fame in ...

Turkey intensified its crackdown on anti-government protests on Friday, arresting the lawyer of the jailed Istanbul mayor and targeting more journalists, as the country faces its biggest wave of ...

Erdogan has branded the protests “street terrorism”. Turkey’s extended ban now applies to the country's three largest cities – Istanbul, Izmir and the capital, Ankara – while the latest ...

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new video loaded: What to Know About the Turmoil in Turkey Turkey was plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a top rival to President ...

“A great country like Turkey has a very small, very underdeveloped, very inadequate main opposition party,” Mr. Erdogan said on Monday. “It has become clear that you cannot trust them to run ...

Almost 1,500 people have been detained -- including an AFP photographer -- as tens of thousands continued protests in Istanbul Tuesday after the arrest of the main political rival of President Recep ...

Europe treads carefully While Turkey's president says the widespread protests — which included clashes with police — are a "movement of violence," France's foreign ministry has branded the ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Erdoğan has been running Turkey since 2003, and he has maintained his hold on power, in part, by cracking down on political opponents and on the media. Some of those opponents come from Turkey ...

Tourists planning a trip to Turkey or those already enjoying their holiday have been advised to take care amid fresh travel warnings. The country, famed for bustling destinations such as Antalya ...