Ramadan began in Turkey amid a fresh flare-up of secular-conservative tensions, fueled by a controversial TV series and ...

In Turkey, a nation with 99% Muslim population, something unexpected is happening. The country's youth have started a social media trend that's raising serious questions about religious identity, ...

While 95% of Turkey identifies as Muslim, that statistic hides the complex story of the Alevis, a diverse community that doesn’t fit neatly into Sunni or Shia categories. Alevis revere Ali and the 12 ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey, reflecting tensions between the two countries. Some 250 people gathered outside the Swedish ...

The controversy erupted following a scene from the ATV network series, Aynı Yagmur Altında, which translates in English to Under the Same Rain. In the show, a host family serves pork to newly arrived ...

STORY: Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday that Muslim nations must act in unison and rally international opposition against Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City. He made the ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Abdullah Gul's election as Turkey's president is a victory for a strain of political Islam centered on promoting Muslim values democratically rather than imposing sharia, Islamic law ...

Gaza's future must be Palestinian-led and avoid any new system of tutelage, Turkey and six of its top Muslim allies said Monday after talks in Istanbul. Turkey, which played a central role in forging ...