Turks began voting Sunday for a new president and parliament in elections that pose the biggest ballot box challenge to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and a half ago. The elections will also usher in a powerful new...

Nearly 300 Turkish diplomats have sought asylum in Germany since a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, a German newspaper reported Saturday. Data from the German interior ministry showed 1,177 Turks with diplomatic status or official credentials, including the spouses and children of...

Israeli naval forces arrested three Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to a Palestinian official.   “The three were detained while fishing close to Al-Sudaniyya area, north of Gaza City,” Nizar Ayyash, head of Gaza’s fishermen union,...

Turkey is heading to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary and presidential elections with 56,322,632 registered voters and 180,065 ballot boxes across the country. Voting will start at 8.00 a.m. local time (0500GMT) and will continue through 5.00 p.m. local time (1400GMT)....