Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, stuns visitors with its beauty and history. It may be unique in having been the seat of both Christian and Muslim empires, and it is still the place where Islam ...

Re "Ruling party in Turkey wins big," July 23 It appears that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party have taken a page from the playbook of George W.

As Turkey’s political and economic influence rises across the Muslim world, the historically secular state could soon become a center for religious learning, too.

In Turkey a former cathedral is altered and repurposed as a mosque, in the U.S., monuments are removed, renamed and defaced.

(RNS) — Members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light seeking asylum in the European Union have been detained in Turkey since May. (RNS) — On May 24, 104 members of a minority religious ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey – When two women in Islamic head scarves were spotted in an Italian restaurant in this city’s posh new shopping mall this month, Gulbin Simitcioglu did a double take. Covered women, ...

Turkey's schools are to stop teaching evolution to students and the subject will not be broached until young people attend college, according to a draft of the country's new curriculum. The head ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Muslim worshippers at the mosque on Friday said they viewed Chora Church's rededication as an Islamic site to be a national win for Turkey.

ISTANBUL (RNS) — On Oct. 15, hundreds of Turkey’s Assyrian Syriac Christians gathered in Istanbul’s leafy Yeşilköy neighborhood to witness the inauguration of Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox ...