Lesson number one: Don’t coup it if you can’t do it. Breaking their institutional track record of highly successful coups, elements of the Turkish military failed in their effort to remove ...

Every major government condemned the coup attempt in Turkey, as did all four of the parties with representatives in the Turkish parliament. So did even Fethullah Gulen, the religious figure ...

Yet in the name of... The abortive coup in Turkey and its aftermath are putting a severe strain on U.S.–Turkish relations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the United States and ...

Gülen was never charged with a crime in the U.S., and he consistently denounced terrorism as well as the coup plotters. In ...

Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkish authorities of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016, has died ...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere, moves that would shatter decades of U.S ...

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, centre, after returning to the capital for the first time since a coup attempt (AAP) Source: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, centre, after ...

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was the first leader to make a solidarity call to President Erdogan after the Turkish coup attempt last year. There are even reports alleging that a 150 ...

A Turkish court decided in a Friday hearing that Turkish businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been imprisoned since 2017, should remain in jail until his trial takes place, based ...