Shaheen feigns outrage over Obama's IRS scandal

Huseyin Sanverdi, the mayor of the border town of Reyhanli, told Haberturk television that one of explosions on Saturday occurred near the municipality building while the other was close to a post office building. He would not say what caused

As protests have raged in Istanbul and across Turkey these last two weeks, the press has rolled over and deferred to the ruling party -- a new low point for the country already known as the world's top jailer of journalists. PIOTR ZALEWSKI is an ...

Zeynep Göğüş is the founder of EurActiv Turkey. "The headlines on the front pages of seven of Turkey's national daily newspapers on Friday June 7th 2013 were suspiciously the same. "For those who come to me with democratic demands, I'll ...

The Bank of Japan disregard recent volatility in domestic bond markets and conclude no new tools are needed after keeping monetary policy on hold. Global stock futures have fallen from the open with the JPY aggressively strengthening amidst ...

Asia The BoJ kept monetary policy unchanged and retained plan for JPY 60-70trl annual rise in monetary base. The BoJ left funding terms unchanged after JGB yield volatility and refrained from extending the duration of fixed rate fund-supplying ...

They organised a peaceful sit-in with tents, singing and dancing. On May 31st riot police staged a pre-dawn raid, dousing the protesters with jets of water and tear gas and setting fire to their encampment. Images of the brutality—showing some ...

IT BEGAN with a grove of sycamores. For months environmentalists had been protesting against a government-backed plan to chop the trees down to make room for a shopping and residential complex in Istanbul's Taksim Square. They organised a peaceful ...

ISTANBUL—The case of a renowned Turkish musician, who had been given a suspended prison sentence for posting Tweets deemed blasphemous caused unease amongst social media users. After the trial, many Twitter users have become wary about what they ...

Huseyin Celik, deputy chairman of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development party, denied opposition demands for early elections and said the country won't bow to financial speculators seeking to profit from the unrest. Celik, speaking after a more ...