Erdoğan's arrest of the Istanbul mayor is aimed at quelling an increasingly vocal political opposition. But Ekrem İmamoğlu is ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...

Turkey has replaced Russia as the dominant power in Syria, a prominent expert tells JNS. By Yaakov Lappin, JNS Turkey is ...

President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ...

It is time for the United States to address Erdogan’s excesses.The post Turkey’s moves in Syria threaten Israel appeared first on JNS.org.

Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

Yet to interpret this solely as a political shift is to miss the deeper story: the transformation of the Turkish soul. The ...

It’s getting hard to tell under the leadership, if that’s the word, of President Erdogan.

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

Thanks to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey is no longer a reliable U.S. ally. There is no future for Turkish-American relations ...

Challenges include uniting a patchwork of rebel groups, gaining control over multiple regions and rebuilding relations with ...