Turkey has run out of patience over the safe haven Kurdish rebels enjoy in neighbouring northern Iraq, but there are no immediate plans for a cross-border military operation into the region, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Friday.
Turkey's president vetoes a constitutional change which would have let the public elect the head of state.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president on Friday vetoed a newly passed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the people -- and not Parliament -- to elect the new president.
Newly installed French President Nicholas Sarkozy is backing off his campaign to keep Turkey out of the European Union.
The war drums are getting louder in Turkey, and they can be heard next door in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, and across the globe in Washington as well.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, the most recent al-Qaeda operative to be captured and held in the secret CIA rendition program before being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April, was captured in Turkey late last year and turned over to U.S. intelligence by that government, a senior al-Qaeda figure said in an...
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer vetoed a constitutional amendment Friday under which Turkey's head of state would have been elected directly by the people instead of by lawmakers, his office said.
Turkey's president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has, as expected, vetoed a constitutional amendment under which the country's next president would be elected by the people instead of by parliament.
GARNAVILLO — The final segment of this year’s spring turkey season has come to an end.
Over two months ago, authorities in Turkey found a video on YouTube that implied Ataturk, the country’s founder, was gay. Turkey banned YouTube, YouTube removed the clip, and the Turkish government got way too cocky - it’s now reserved the legal right to block any website with content it finds offensive to Ataturk’s memory. Our previous coverage of this story led to one of the most ...