ISTANBUL — Turkish antiterror units arrested dozens of people in several cities early Tuesday as part of an intensifying crackdown against anti-government protests that have persisted for weeks. ... Read more
ISTANBUL — The Turkish authorities widened their crackdown on the antigovernment protest movement on Sunday, taking aim not just at the demonstrators themselves, but also at the medics who treat their ... Read more
ISTANBUL — After meeting for several hours with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his home in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, protest organizers whose fight to save an Istanbul park set off a ... Read more
ISTANBUL — As night fell Thursday and this city girded for a decisive police raid on Gezi Park that officials said was imminent, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan shifted strategy again: he invited a ... Read more
ISTANBUL — In an apparent change of tactics, Turkey’s prime minister agreed on Monday to meet with leaders of the protest movement whose opposition to the planned razing of a park in ... Read more
ISPARTA, Turkey — After retaking Taksim Square in Istanbul after hours of ugly street battles with police officers firing tear gas this month, many of the haggard protesters cracked bottles of Efes beer ... Read more
ISTANBUL — On a normal day, Taksim Square is a mess of buses and crowds, a tangle of plazas, streets, shops and taxi horns. Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is determined to clean it ... Read more
ISTANBUL — Refusing to yield to a week of protests in dozens of Turkish cities, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that a redevelopment project that included the destruction of a park in ... Read more
SURUC, Turkey — In Kurdish villages around Suruc, on the Turkish border with Syria, chickens and children kick up the dust on dirt roads between mud brick compounds. It seems an unlikely setting for a ... Read more
The Turkish government blames Twitter. Many Turks point their fingers at a cowed news media. As protesters took to the streets of Istanbul and other cities, confronting security forces wielding ... Read more