Joakim Medin will remain behind bars awaiting prosecution on terror-related charges that press freedom groups say aim to ...

After sentencing Joakim Medin for “insulting Erdoğan,” a Turkish court suspended the ruling but kept him jailed on separate terrorism charges. Rights groups say Turkey is using anti-terror laws to ...

Police-state repression is part of the government's drive to crush social and political opposition by establishing a ...

A Turkish court has convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Joakim Medin received an ...

A Turkish court on Wednesday handed a Swedish journalist an 11-month suspended sentence for insulting President Recep Tayyip ...

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ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted a Swedish journalist of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that “historical problems” in Cyprus can be left behind with a two-state solution on the island.“We believe that we can leave the historical ...

By fomenting chaos in Egypt and using Islamists fleeing Israel’s war in Gaza as a means to overthrow the ruling junta there, ...

Most stock markets in the Gulf ended higher on Wednesday ahead of more corporate earnings announcements, while investors ...

A Turkish court has jailed pending trial 18 employees of the Istanbul municipality on corruption charges, state-owned Anadolu and other media reported on Wednesday, amid a crackdown on the opposition ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed demands by Syrian Kurdish groups for Syria to adopt a decentralised system of ...