In September, 333 children died in the civil war raging in Syria. Of the dead in September 333 were women, and 78 were women who died under torture.

Archimandrite Philip Tournyol Clos said that foreigners fighting in Syria are to blame for divisions between Christians and Muslims in that country.

Just 200 years after the heroic and fatal stand of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans against an onslaught from Persia, Greece would again face down invaders bent on destruction.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders lives in fear because of Islamist threats against his life. He denounced Turkish President Abdullah Gul on the latter's visit to Amsterdam.

At the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine had his victory and so began a long-standing relationship between Church and state.

Reference to Turkey's Ottoman Empire was generally frowned upon after the formation of the secular state. But judging by the record crowds that have flocked to see a new movie about the conquest of Constantinople, the days of Turkey ignoring its past are history.

Turkish police have reportedly detained some 100 people in a nationwide crackdown on alleged supporters of Kurdish rebels.

Turkey has denounced as "racist" and "discriminatory" a new French measure making it a criminal offense to deny that a genocide of Armenians by Ottoman Turks occurred.

Awaiting French president Sarkozy's signature is a bill outlawing the denial of the historicity of the Turkish genocide of Armenians almost 100 years ago. Turkey is hopping mad about it.

A permanent rift between NATO allies France and Turkey over a bill awaiting President Sarkozy's signature that would outlaw the denial of the Armenian genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks in the early 1900s.

Turkey has asked French senators to reject a bill which makes it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey were a "genocide."

Thousands of people have marched through central Istanbul to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

A Turkish court sentences Yasin Hayal to life in prison for instigating the assassination, but does not attribute any role to the terrorist organisation responsible for the murder of Fr Andrea Santoro in Trabzon and three Christians in Malatya. The ‘deep state’ is responsible for crimes designed to ...

Turkey's government today expressed outrage at comments by U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, who suggested the country is ruled by Islamic terrorists and questioned its NATO membership.

The accusation of coup d’État against Ilker Basbug, much disliked by the Kurdish community, comes soon after the air force bomb Kurdish smugglers, killing 35.

Turkey's deputy prime minister says his government will compensate the families of 35 civilians mistakenly killed last month in an air strike aimed at Kurdish rebels.

Turkey has responded angrily to a French legislative vote on criminalizing genocide denial by threatening to halt military cooperation with France, highlighting Ankara's long-standing refusal to recognize the mass killings of Armenians at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has called on France to abandon an Armenian "genocide bill."

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden pressed Turkey to unconditionally ratify its Western-backed normalization agreements with Armenia "in the months ahead" during a visit to Ankara and Istanbul that ended at the weekend.

Turkey has said it will suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze the assets of President Bashar al-Assad's government.

An Islamist party is in power in Turkey, a NATO ally of the US. But is there change afoot regarding religion?

The 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the province of Van and the town of the same name already the scene of the devastating earthquake of October 23, that cost over 600 lives. Buildings and hotels that housed journalists and rescue teams collapse.

A tremor registering 5.6 on the Richter scale struck Turkey overnight. Over 100 people are missing and 7 are dead. An earthquake on Oct. 23 claimed over 600 lives.

Iran's foreign minister visited Turkey as Turkish armed forces continued their military incursion into northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels. Ankara is looking for support from its neighbors, but as Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, regional tensions are complicating Ankara's battle ...

One of the more controversial aspects of Turkish foreign policy has been Ankara's drive to cultivate close ties with Iran. But Turkey's decision to allow the placement of a NATO radar as part of a missile-defense system, primarily aimed at Iran, has provoked outrage in Tehran.

A United Nations human rights expert today commended Turkish authorities for placing the protection and promotion of human rights high on their agenda, while calling for further steps to guarantee an independent and impartial judicial system.