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As some 700,000 secularist Turks took to the streets of Istanbul Sunday demanding the resignation of Turkey's government, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul , a member of the ruling Islamist-rooted Justice...

A parliamentary vote on the only candidate running to be the next president of Turkey ran into a legal challenge Friday after Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul , a member of the ruling...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the US Congress would damage the American relationship with Turkey if it supports a resolution recognizing the WWI-era killings of Armenians by...

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Monday that he favors amending the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code without eliminating the provision altogether. The article makes...

Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul said Wednesday that a proposed resolution by the US Congress condemning the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 as "genocide" would damage US-Turkish relations....

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has called for change to the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code, which makes "insulting the Turkish identity" a crime. Gul, who last December...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Teesdale, an attorney in the Federal Public Defenders Office in Portland, Oregon representing Guantanamo detainee Adel Hamad, a Sudanese national transferred to Guantanamo in early 2003 from Pakistan, says that on the fifth anniversary of...

Iraq's National Assembly on Tuesday again postponed debate on a draft federalism bill that would allow Iraq's 18 provinces to form strong governments with their own security forces. Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Tuesday that...

Turkey has urged European countries to reexamine their religious defamation laws and ensure that they protect Muslims in the wake of the Muhammad cartoons controversy . At a weekend conference of EU foreign ministers in Austria, Turkish...

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in a TV interview Wednesday that state slander laws used to prosecute Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and implicated as recently as Tuesday in a possible prosecutorial probe of comments...