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The Ottomans used the ceremonial reception as a means of demonstrating the might and wealth of the Ottoman Empire. Today a foreign ambassador comes to Turkey and presents his credentials to...

The İstanbul 10th High Criminal Court has made a historic judgment in the Balyoz investigation. For the first time in the republican history of Turkey, military servicemen who allegedly...

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Communist Party and will "face justice", state media said on Friday. The announcement follows intense speculation on the fate...

What could be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" was unveiled yesterday in Geneva along with research hinting the piece was indeed the work of the...

A four-day touring photography workshop in İstanbul held in historical parts of the city began on Friday under the direction of UK photographer Peter Sanders, who has conducted similar...

Germany has rejected claims from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that it does not wantTurkey to solve its Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorism problem. “The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Germany. The...

The leaders of Syrian armed rebels, Free Syrian Army, have not returned to Syria unlike they claimed so earlier, but travel back and forth to Syria from Turkey, according...

A row over an alleged WikiLeaks cable from 2003 has heated up between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, as the premier filed a lawsuit against...

The Turkish foreign minister blasted the United Nations Security Council on Friday for its stalemate over the Syrian civil war, saying the powerful UN body's inability to take action...

BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş says a negotiation process to solve the Kuridsh woe is impossible while BDP deputies threatened with the lifting of their parliamentary immunity. ‘Such a thing (lifting...