Turkish PM says no plans to change state slander provision for EU bid
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his government has no plans to abolish Article 301 of the country's penal code, despite warnings from the European Union ...
Turkish novelist subject of state slander case wins Nobel Prize
Turkey's most prominent writer, Orhan Pamuk , won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday for his work examining the role of Islam in society. Pamuk, a visiting professor at Columbia University, said he...
The Turkish parliament, the Grand National Assembly , is scheduled to meet Tuesday, two weeks earlier than usual, to work on passing reform measures aimed at gaining membership to the European Union . The EU has...
A Turkish court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation from novelist Orhan Pamuk , who was sued by six nationalists after he made allegedly unfavorable remarks to a Swiss magazine about Turkey's stance on...
International brief ~ Zimbabwe to seize all private productive farmland
Leading Friday's international brief, a high-level source in the cabinet of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has told news agencies in Zimbabwe that the administration has decided to push forward legislation that would nationalize all private...
Armenians around the world have been remembering the massacre of their people ninety years ago by the Ottoman Empire . Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the Armenian city of Yerevan Sunday to pay...
