Time for Turkey to come to terms with its Ottoman past
The truth about the killings of Armenians, condemned as genocide by Pope Francis, exposes a fragility at the heart of modern Turkey, dating back to the era of Ataturk, the country’s founder.
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Nato says it is ready to “defend” allies after Russian jets violated Turkish airspace whilst conducting air strikes in Syria.
Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson joins one group of refugees taking the momentous decision to leave Lebanon for Turkey. The first ‘straightforward’ step of their epic journey into Europe.
Nine people have been killed in attacks across Turkey with a police station and the US consulate in Istanbul among the targets.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants attack a military outpost and a police car in southeast Turkey killing one policeman – part of a surge in violence between the PKK and the Turkish state.
The Kurdish YPG were hailed heroes in the fight against Islamic State. But one Brit who fought alongside them says that Turkey’s crackdown on Kurdish separatists will put their entire mission at risk.
Turkey denies claims it shelled Kurdish fighter positions in a village in northern Syria, as Ankara continues its campaign against so-called Islamic State and Kurdish militants.
At least 28 people, mostly students, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a town near Turkey’s border with Syria.
Eight migrants drowned and Turkish authorities rescued 70 others after their ship sank off Greece. Their screams are heard through the darkness as authorities rushed to their rescue.
The truth about the killings of Armenians, condemned as genocide by Pope Francis, exposes a fragility at the heart of modern Turkey, dating back to the era of Ataturk, the country’s founder.
Sabiha Gokcen airport releases footage of three teenagers – two cousins aged 17 and a man aged 19 – from London being detained as they allegedly attempt to travel to Syria to join Islamic State.
News that an agent for a western ally may have helped three missing British schoolgirls cross the Turkish border to join Islamic State militants in Syria is grist to Turkey’s mill.
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Turkish police make at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station with close ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. The chief editor of the Zaman daily is among those held.
At least half of Aleppo’s Armenians have left the country. Once again, their community is divided and endangered. And once again, they regard Turkey as the chief cause of their problems.
The defenders of the Syrian Kurdish town claim to have repulsed waves of attacks by Islamic State militants, as pressure grows on Turkey to intervene.