Byzantine-era monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, formerly the Byzantine capital city known as Constantinople, are being covered ...

Events in Turkey show how leaders can weaken secularism, concentrate power and criminalise the opposition within a political ...

Two journalists were detained in dawn raids in Istanbul early Friday as part of a crackdown on media workers covering ...

President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ...

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

At least 154 people died in a powerful, 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on Friday and caused widespread ...

As democracy in Turkey collapses under the pressure of the escalating imperialist war and growing social inequality, a ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Police used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital early ...

To pressure President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the jailing of his top rival, the opposition wants Turks to boycott companies ...

Almost 1,500 people have been detained -- including an AFP photographer -- as tens of thousands continued protests in the ...

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and Central Bank Governor Fatih Karahan told international investors on Tuesday that ...