Tag: Turkey

The exhumed body of Turkey's late President Turgut Ozal, who led the country out of military rule in the 1980s, contained poison but the cause of death was unclear, local ...

Euronews is looking back at the year’s events and the people for whom 2012 will be remembered. In a year of elections and ongoing economic struggles, certain individuals and groups ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died Tuesday in ...

Turkish Forensic Medicine Institute has completed a report on the demise of Turkey's eighth President Turgut Ozal. ISTANBUL The report will now be sent to the Ankara Prosecutor's Office. Ozal's ...

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said 232 journalists are jailed around the world as of Dec. 1, a record number since the group began counting in 1990. WORST: Turkey ...

President Obama said Tuesday that the United States would formally recognize a coalition of Syrian opposition groups as that country’s legitimate representative, intensifying the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to ...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that their policy as of now would be to facilitate national reconciliation in Palestine. Abbas attended a dinner hosted in his honor as well as ...

Perhaps already starting his campaign for a political comeback, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has criticised his successor for following policies that are too “German-centric”.   Berlusconi’s comments attack ...

More than half a million people have now fled the conflict in Syria to neighbouring countries, according to the UN's refugee agency. The UNHCR says it has accounted for 509,559 refugees ...

He's back. Having kept a relatively low profile since being forced to step down as Italy's premier last year, Silvio Berlusconi, the bad boy of Italian politics, has decided to ...