(RNS) — Erdoğan's arrest of the Istanbul mayor is aimed at quelling an increasingly vocal political opposition. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is also indispensable to the Turkish president as a symbol of ...

Turkey has detained over 1,100 people — including 10 journalists reportedly arrested Monday morning — since mass protests were sparked on March 19 by the arrest of Istanbul's popular Mayor Ekrem ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, waves during a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar before a military parade marking the 51st anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion in the ...

Harry Truman often gets credit for being the first U.S. president to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. While Truman was the first to receive a ceremonial turkey from the chairman of the National Turkey ...

The turkeys were pardoned during a lighthearted ceremony at the White House. President Joe Biden gave the official presidential pardon to turkeys Liberty and Bell on the White House South Lawn on ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud prior to their meeting in Antalya, Turkey, in Nov. 14, 2015, ahead of the upcoming G-20 summit ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Turkish Cypriots on Sunday celebrated Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus that cleaved the island nation along ethnic lines 51 years ago. Turkey's president reaffirmed his full ...