July 6 (Bloomberg) -- When Turkey's army decided to block Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-leaning presidential candidate in April, it didn't have to roll tanks into the streets. All it had to do was post a late-night notice on its Web site.
Turkey's highest court rules that controversial constitutional reforms passed by the government are valid.
Turkey's top court on Thursday opened the way for a referendum to be held on whether its president should be elected by popular vote instead of by parliament.
Turkey's highest court has backed the Islamist-rooted government's plans to hold a referendum on constitutional reforms that would allow voters instead of parliament to elect future presidents.
Turkey's Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the appeals asking for invalidation of the constitutional amendments package that allows the president to be elected by popular vote, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Th ...
There are a lot of good lessons to be learned from the turkey fryer fire Thursday at 568 Carver Ave. N.W., said Fire Prevention Bureau Captain Jerry Layne.
Torture, ill-treatment and killings continue to be met with persistent impunity for the security forces in Turkey, Amnesty International charged in a new report, Turkey: The Entrenched Culture of Impunity Must End, released today. The investigation and prosecution of serious human rights violations committed by officers of the police and gendarmerie are flawed and compounded by inconsistent ...
Norwegian oil and gas firm Statoil has revealed that gas from the Shah Deniz field in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea is now flowing to Turkey for the first time, through the new 690km South Caucasus Pipeline.
Turkey's Aegean resort city of Cesme will host the sixth leg races of Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) World Cup between Aug. 13 and 18, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Sixty-four surfers from 25 countries wil ...
BAKU, July 5 (Reuters) - Azeri Shakh-Deniz gas project will supply 1.3 -1.4 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas to Turkey and 0.3-0.4 bcm to Georgia in 2007, one of the project's operator, Norway's Statoil , said on Thursday.