Turkey's expansion into Africa through commerce including military sales reportedly challenges U.S. interests as ongoing ...

Ankara feels that from the Horn of Africa to the Eastern Mediterranean and Syria and Iraq it has increased its influence ...

While 95% of Turkey identifies as Muslim, that statistic hides the complex story of the Alevis, a diverse community that doesn’t fit neatly into Sunni or Shia categories. Alevis revere Ali and the 12 ...

In Turkey, a nation with 99% Muslim population, something unexpected is happening. The country's youth have started a social media trend that's raising serious questions about religious identity, ...

Ramadan began in Turkey amid a fresh flare-up of secular-conservative tensions, fueled by a controversial TV series and ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Turkey Tuesday, marking his first visit to a Muslim country as pontiff. He backed Turkey's bid to join the European Union and said he believed Islam was a religion of ...

Turkey's new leaders promise their government will still be secular, despite the Islamic orientation of their ruling party. We hear about Turkey's relationship with Iran and Iraq, and the ...

More than a half century ago, the Greek junta and its allies in Cyprus sought enosis, the political union between Greece and Cyprus. Fearing that any such union would harm the Turkish Cypriot Muslim ...

Nearly nine decades after Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the secular republic of Turkey, a conservative Muslim has been elected president. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected today in a third ...