Turkey's prime minister asked President Barack Obama on Monday to prevent a possible House vote on a resolution declaring the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

I had great hopes for Turkey and Erdogan. Past tense.

German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish rebels.

"The EU has called on Turkey to open up trade with Cyprus, to better promote gender equality and human rights, and to toe the line on foreign policy issues in a lukewarm appraisal of Ankara's path towards EU membership.

Turkey's ruling party is trying to create an official form of Alevism that can be subsumed into its Sunni-led Directorate of Religious Affairs while delegitimizing all other forms of the faith, an Alevi labor union leader says.

The idea that Australia was born as a nation on Gallipoli's shores is now deeply cemented in our history books and national psyche.

The Arab and Muslim world are, by nature, chronically violent. In addition to tribal and family feuds, religious and political wars are ever-constant, as are slavers, gun-runners, pirates, tyrants, torturers, and garden-variety thieves and gangsters.

Turkey's top Roman Catholic bishop has publicly accused Turkish ultra-nationalists and religious fanatics of being behind the slaying of the country's senior bishop.

"A suicide bomber wounded 32 people in an attack targeting Turkish police in Istanbul's main square Sunday, an area teaming with tourists and shoppers.

With the project "Chid Brides: Victims of Destructive Traditions and Patriarchal Social Heritage" the Flying Broom Association is going to tackle the problem of early and forced marriages in Turkey. 33 percent of all wives enter marriage as a minor.

Data found on a laptop of a passenger of last May's Gaza bound flotilla indicates that the flotilla's organizers received assistance from the highest levels of the Turkish government, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Edogan and other senior government officials.

While Turkey begins to flex its diplomatic muscles, three dark Turkish crimes continue to haunt the world: Armenian Genocide, Kurdish ethnic cleansing and the occupation of Northern Cyprus.

The arrival of a new Middle East player startled Washington and Jerusalem Military sources disclose that when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyep Erdogan met Syrian president Bashar Assad in Damascus Monday, Oct.

More than 150 Kurds, including a dozen elected mayors, went on trial Monday for alleged links with a Kurdish guerrilla group at a time when the Turkish government is engaged in efforts to reconcile with the members of this ethnic minority.

The Holocaust was not the first genocide of the twentieth century: that dishonour goes to the Turks and Kurds in present-day Turkey for the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children in a campaign that began in earnest in 1915.

Turkey's Human Rights Hypocrisy

What if, instead of slavery, the United States had murdered all of the African Americans? What if, instead of relocating some Native American tribes, they were completely wiped out? This annihilation is essentially what happened with the Armenians in the early 1900's and the Kurd …

A large part of the people who inhabited it were Armenians - it had once been at the heart of a great Armenian empire. Today there are almost none. The only two buildings still standing there are mosques. Of the dozen or so churches, there is no trace.

A sex scandal has gripped Turkey after media reports emerged of how the historic luxury yacht formerly belonging to the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was turned into an floating vice den involving underage prostitutes and rich businessmen.

Turkey must pay about $170,000 (euro133,000) to the family of a slain ethnic Armenian journalist, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday, saying the state failed to protect him despite threats against his life.

Turks took a step closer to Europe by voting for constitutional changes aimed at bringing the country into line with European standards of democracy. Yet it was also a massive show of confidence in an Islamic-rooted government whose closer ties with Iran and hostility toward Israel have caused dismay in the West.

"Shocking Images of Dead Kurdish Fighters"

"Mr. Erdoğan has talked about my mother and my father. Now, in a speech in Gaziantep, he even questioned my kin," Kılıçdaroğlu said Monday, adding that he was proud of his ancestry and his family.

"President Barack Obama has personally warned Turkey's prime minister that unless Ankara shifts its position on Israel and Iran it stands little chance of obtaining the US weapons it wants to buy.

The excellent young American journalist Jake Hess – who is a good friend of mine – has just been imprisoned in Turkey in extremely worrying circumstances.

"A study being conducted by a team from Dicle University in the Southeast on honor killings has so far shown that little if any social stigma is attached to the act.

A handful of activists interrupted a meeting on gender equality Thursday, demanding that a Turkish official apologize for saying recently that homosexuality is a disease.

A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in a gruesome Turkish honour killing - because she befriended boys.

Excellent analysis, plus some very enlightening links.

"The Turkish charity that led the flotilla involved in a deadly Israeli raid has extensive connections with Turkey's political elite, and the group's efforts to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza received support at the top levels of the governing party, Turkish diplomats …

Turkish air raids in Iraq's Kurdish north have killed a teenage girl - the first reported civilian death from shelling that began last week. Turkish warplanes often bomb suspected Turkish Kurdish rebel positions in the self-rule mountainous region

"Kurdish separatist rebels carried out two attacks on troops in southeast Turkey, killing one soldier in a gun battle and separately wounding 14 by detonating a roadside bomb, military officials said on Friday.

Although most of the recent talk regarding flotillas has revolved around ships sailing toward Gaza, at least two plans have emerged for "reverse flotillas" – from Israel toward Turkey – to highlight what organizers have labeled the Turks' "shameless hypocrisy" in th …

Hey there all you starry eyed humanitarians, do gooders, peace activists, liberal religious, anti Israel, anti Jewish haters and other useful idiots! Do you want to help a small beleaguered minority group of Muslims in the Mideast fighting for a state of its own against a larger, …

They certainly were important. The solitary Kurdish man, on that summer's day in 1994, had made the greatest archaeological discovery in 50 years.

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

"Evidently, a lot of people out there really think there was a huge need for the supplies being brought in by the Turkish "peace activist" flotilla. "

"The Free Kurdistan Movement, human rights group, says it is planning the first international flotilla and motor convoy to reach Turkish-occupied Kurdistan-

"Sec. Hillary Clinton discusses the government's position on Israel's raid of a flotilla carrying aid supplies to Gaza.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Israel should respect the fundamental and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and end the blockade on Gaza.

Armenian Genocide day commemorates the 24 April 1915 commencement of the Turkish Armenian Genocide in which 1.5 million Armenians were systematically murdered by the Turks in the period 1915-1923.

Between 1915 and 1918, some 800,000 to 1.5 million people were murdered in what is now eastern Turkey, or died on death marches in the northern Syrian desert. It was one of the first genocides of the 20th century.

The attempted suicide by a girl who is 54 years younger than her husband lights up once again the long-running controversy surrounding early marriages in Turkey, many of which are pursued for financial reasons according to one women's rights organization.

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's radical president whose fiery rhetoric has made him a bête noire of the west? "There is no doubt he is our friend," said Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister for the last six years.

It came as a great surprise when reading Lonely Planet's Turkish guide to see that reference to the Armenian genocide, in fact almost any mention of the once huge Armenian population that was indigenous to eastern Turkey, was nonexistent.

"Syria is persecuting its Kurdish minority, detaining activists and banning peaceful gatherings, even as neighboring countries have improved their treatment of the Kurds, an international human rights group said Thursday.

"A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.

"The reputation and credibility of the Turkish military are on the line after whistle-blowers within its own ranks told civilian prosecutors that a plan hatched by the army to undermine the government was genuine, despite public assurances by the chief of the army general staff t …

"Turkey has blocked two of its largest LGBT websites. Users of sites such as hadigayri.com and gabile.com are finding that instead of regular homepages, they are seeing messages stating that the site has been blocked by the Telecommunication Directorate.