Turkey is no longer just a transit country for one branch of the extremist "Islamic State" group. Experts say the group has become more professional in Turkey and could pose a danger domestically, and ...

By Umit Bektas YALOVA, Turkey, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey on Monday, the Interior Minister said, a ...

What distinguishes current talks from the historical cooperation among the three countries is the effort to formalize these relationships under a mutual defense framework.

Turkey's foreign minister said the current ceasefire in Syria should remain in place while Islamic State prisoners are ...

ANKARA, TurkeyANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister has urged Chinese authorities to protect the cultural rights of minority Muslim Uyghurs in China’s western Xinjiang province and allow them to ...

More than a half century ago, the Greek junta and its allies in Cyprus sought enosis, the political union between Greece and Cyprus. Fearing that any such union would harm the Turkish Cypriot Muslim ...

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Turkey Tuesday, marking his first visit to a Muslim country as pontiff. He backed Turkey's bid to join the European Union and said he believed Islam was a religion of ...

There were plenty of headlines this morning in Barack Obama’ s visit to Turkey, the first Muslim country he has visited as president. Obama, a Christian whose father was Muslim and who spent several ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- As Turks took to the streets to celebrate the failed coup, a Muslim cleric in the Poconos says he had nothing to do with it. The Imam spoke to reporters Saturday in a compound in ...