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Refuting critics both inside and outside Turkey, Prime MinisterRecep Tayyip Erdoğan has said a new bill on the Internet will not lead to censorship and the restriction of freedom, but rather ...

The 50th edition of the Presidential Tour of Cycling, or Tour of Turkey, will be run between April 27 and May 4, as the route and calendar were announced yesterday.  ...

Popular televised series produced and aired by Gülen-affiliated TV channel showered with criticism over its exploitation of Prophet Muhammad for its own benefit. The Gülen Movement is blatantly using religious ...

President Abdullah Gül used the Feb. 12 ceremony for the opening of a new metro line in Ankara as an opportunity to deliver a message of “unity for the sake of the ...

'Precautions should be taken to prevent right to protest from disturbing public order and harming state buildings' Peace and stability in Bosnia-Herzegovina are vital for both Turkey and the Balkans, ...

After reports that voters will be manipulated not to vote for AK Party in the upcoming local elections, the AK Party took a number of measures against interference, including assigning 800,000 AK ...

After almost four years of stalemate due to the deadly May 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday  that the Turkish-Israeli relationship is closer to normalization than ever. Stressing ...

Says bill was passed to clamp down on privacy violations, not to crackdown on freedom of speech. Museums in Turkey were visited by nearly 30 million people in 2013, according to ...

Removal of unlawful content from the Internet in four hours is vital to protect personal privacy as voice record leakages increased ahead of local elections, experts say. A law allowing ...

Turkey is the primary partner of Russia, President Vladimir Putin said Feb. 7 after talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Sochi, putting an emphasis on energy trade between two countries. ...