Turkey

More like a summer festival than the ‘Turkish spring’: Lindsey Hilsum reports from Istanbul on the continued protests and asks just what the government can do to appease the people on the streets.

Turkey’s deputy prime minister apologises to protesters for “excessive violence” used by police. But after five days of civil strife, are events inside the country spiralling out of control?

His opponents call him the sultan, and say he is intent on transforming Turkey’s secular state into an Islamic fiefdom. But amid widespread protests, which way will Turkey’s prime minister turn?

Violence has erupted again on the streets of Turkey as tens of thousands of protestors come out for a third day to protest against heavy-handed policing and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

Turkish police fire tear gas and pressurised water at demonstrators on a second day of anti-government action, which was sparked by a protest to protect a park from redevelopment.

At least 40 people are dead and another 100 injured after explosions in a border town in southern Turkey, says the interior minister.

Imprisoned leader of the Kurdish rebels in Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan, calls for a cease fire – bringing hopes of an end to a bloody 30-year conflict.

A suicide bomber who attacked the US embassy in Ankara, killing himself and a security guard, belonged to an illegal leftist group, according to the Turkish government.

Three Kurdish women reportedly including a founding member of the PKK militant group were shot dead overnight in Paris in killings that sources say was politically motivated.

Turkey asks Nato to deploy Patriot missiles on its territory to help it defend itself against any Syrian attacks.

Turkey’s vow to stay out of the Syrian civil war looks increasingly under threat, as renewed attacks by the Syrian president’s air force move perilously close to the Turkish border.