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, ...

Protests have been growing in Turkey against the government's candidate for president. Citizens and members of the army are concerned about Abdullah Gul's Muslim roots. Many Turks fear Gul's faith ...

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 ...

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Earlier on Saturday, Erdoğan’s office rejected claims that Turkish airspace had been used to facilitate attacks on Iran.

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 ...

FILE - Protesters chant slogans as they hold posters and pictures of victims during a protest against China's brutal crackdown on ethnic group Uyghurs, in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, ...