Investigative newspaper reporter Ismail Saymaz thought he faced 10 criminal cases against him for articles he had written. But when he logged on to a Turkish government website to check his legal status, Saymaz discovered an unpleasant surprise: two...

Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rains swept through a town in northern Turkey, killing at least 12 people, officials said Friday. The landslide hit dozens of homes in Gundogdu, in the tea-growing Black Sea province of Rize. The region has...

Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum. Investigators claimed they were stashed there by an ultranationalist retired officer and they...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Thursday pulled down barricades that have separated them for half a century, reopening Ledra Street, known as Lokmaci Gate by Turkish Cypriots, a potent symbol of Cyprus’ ethnic partition. The highly symbolic gesture...