A moderate earthquake shook the southeastern Turkish province of Bingol on Sunday, a seismology center said. There were no reports of any damage or injuries.
A man stabbed a Roman Catholic priest Sunday in the Black Sea port of Samsun, a church official said, in the third attack against a Catholic cleric in Turkey in recent months.
Thousands of angry Turks burned an Israeli flag Friday and chanted "Murderer Israel, Get out of Palestine!" to protest Israel's offensive into the Gaza Strip.

Turkey's prime minister urged the West on Wednesday to make a concerted effort to lessen tensions with Muslim societies, saying more tolerance is needed to mend a deepening rift with the Islamic world.

An explosion in the Turkish Mediterranean resort town of Antalya on Sunday killed three foreign tourists and a Turk and injured about 25 people, a local official said.
Turkey's top court indefinitely suspended the corruption trial of former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz on technical grounds Friday, a move that amounts to the case being dropped.
Turkey's prime minister announced plans Tuesday to build three nuclear power plants by 2015 to meet the country's growing energy needs.
Suspected Kurdish rebels set off a small bomb inside a trash container in a busy Istanbul neighborhood Thursday, injuring at least four people, police and reports said.
The manager of a Turkish museum's storehouse was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch, officials said Tuesday.
Oil exports from Iraq's northern fields have resumed more than four months after insurgents sabotaged twin pipelines carrying Iraqi crude to Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday.
A woman was killed and two people were injured Monday when they handled munition they found at a military scrap yard close to barracks in northwestern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported.
The death toll from a methane gas explosion in a Turkish coal mine rose to 17 on Friday after firefighters, troops and miners worked through the night to recover the bodies.
An explosion caused by a fire at a rifle range in Istanbul left 14 people injured on Thursday, Turkish media reported.
Two pieces from the treasure of King Croesus that were returned to Turkey from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after a long legal battle have been stolen and replaced with fakes, the culture and tourism minister said Sunday.
In a drill, Turkish commandos rappelled from military helicopters onto a merchant ship that mock intelligence said was carrying weapons of mass destruction. U.S. commandos raced to join them from a nearby warship.

Former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, a political force for nearly 50 years, remained in a coma on life support for a second day Wednesday following treatment for a stroke, his hospital said.

A quick-spreading fire burned down most of the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, forcing 2,000 workers to flee the thick black smoke that closed one runway to traffic and disrupted flights.
A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, blocking air traffic and causing hundreds of panicked people to flee, television reports said. Authorities worked to evacuate thousands of people from nearby terminals.
A Turkish court on Tuesday canceled the sale of a 14.76 percent stake in formerly state-owned oil refiner Tupras.

Warplanes from Greece and Turkey collided over the Aegean Sea as they shadowed each other Tuesday in disputed airspace, and officials said the Turkish pilot was rescued unhurt.

Warplanes from Greece and Turkey collided over the Aegean Sea as they shadowed each other Tuesday in disputed airspace, and officials said the Turkish pilot was rescued unhurt.
A truck carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Bangladesh crashed into a parked transport truck Friday, killing at least 40 people, an official in southern Turkey said.
Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit was in serious condition at an Ankara military hospital after suffering a stroke, the state-owned Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.

