Turkey islamic party

Tension over refugees takes center stage in Turkey ahead of elections

Both the Turkish president and the main opposition have said they want Syrians to return to their war-torn country.

|ByKRISTINA JOVANOVSKI/THE MEDIA LINE
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters during a ceremony in Istanbul, last year.
Seyran Ates, founder of the new liberal Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque, prays in Berlin

Germany condemns Turkish criticism of new liberal mosque

Germany is home to an estimated 4 million people of Turkish origin.

|ByREUTERS
Layan Nassar

‘I told her not to go’

Father of Israeli woman killed in the New Year’s Eve attack in Istanbul said on Sunday that he had tried to stop his 18-year-old daughter from traveling to Turkey.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses during an attempted coup in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016.

Analysis: Turkish fury - Syrian invasion will escalate to encompass Kurds

This is the only border area Islamic State still shares with Turkey, and Turkey has wanted a buffer zone as well as a no-fly zone there since last year.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Women arrested for making obscene hand gesture at Turkey's Erdogan

Erdogan says woman directed "ugly gesture" at him en route to political rally; "insulting a public official" punishable by prison time.

MARCH 17, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan