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Fifty years after the country's most infamous military coup, Turkey finally appears to be strenghening its democratic institutions. BY ALI ASLAN | MAY 28, 2010 On May 27, 1960, Turkish military officers arrested democratically elected Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, and members of his cabinet. Menderes was placed on a trial before a mil...

  // // // (Reuters) - Turkey said on Sunday Iran had agreed on a nuclear fuel swap deal which could help end Tehran's stand-off with the West over its atomic programme. Full details of the agreement were not immediately released by Turkish and Brazilian officials mediating in Iran's dispute with leading world powers, who suspe...

A reception held in Washington, D.C., by the Assembly of Turkic American Federations, gathering six major federations representing the thriving Turkic-American community in the US, was attended by seven senators and 53 congressmen among hundreds of well-wishers. An opening gala reception of the Assembly of Turkic American Federation...

Amid fallout from a video clip posted online that allegedly shows him in flagrante delicto with a party deputy, Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal announced his immediate resignation from party leadership on Monday, putting the blame for the emergence of the scandalous video clip on the ruling party -- an accusation both ...

The second annual Anatolian Cultures and Food Festival, sponsored by the Pacifica Institute, a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 by a group of Turkish-Americans based in California, has taken the sights, sounds and flavors of Anatolia to the United States. The four-day event, which concluded on Sunday, featured replicas of monuments...