Pilots Hasan Tahsin Arisan, Murat Sezer, Olgay Ozgur and cabin crew head Ulvi Murat Eskin were killed in the Turkish plane that crashed in Amsterdam, Turkish Airlines said in a statement on Friday.

Mehmet Ali Birand - EnglishFikret Bila’s headline story in the daily Milliyet on Sunday reminded us of a painful truth. Bila, in his article, revealed reasons for the General Staff’s objection to ...

We are at the last quarter of June, and it looks like it will take a miracle to have a signing ceremony in the remaining days of the month. In contrast to the expectations, it was not possible to ...

These words of the minister -- whose ministry is a most weird one, because it is subordinate to the military that it is supposed to supervise in a real democracy -- implied that he was content with ...

Turkish top court decided on Monday to accept the lawsuit against the ruling AKP demanding its closure. The lawsuit, which could last up to a year, raised concerns over a prolonged political ...

There is nothing wrong if one is a (political) soldier of Islam. It is just awfully dishonest if one is a soldier of Islam but claims he is not. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s love affair with ...

It is 4:30 am on Sunday morning, and while most Turks are still asleep, two international television news networks, CNN and BBC, air live broadcasts from Gaza, as one point draws my attention.

ISTANBUL - Sadi Çağdır, a forensic medical expert, put a face back on to a skull from the antique city of Metropolis with the technique of facial reconstruction, after reassembling the pieces of the ...

The Turkish Armed Forces, or TSK, has been in distress for a long time now. In former years this distress could be felt but this distress has increased with what we have experienced since the AKP came ...

A former military intelligence member wanted to have a private conversation with me recently. "I have very important information," he said. He had documents about the personal spending of government ...

ISTANBUL - Turkish football star Tugay Kerimoğlu brings an emotional end to an illustrious career as he waves goodbye to his Blackburn Rovers fans. The midfielder earns himself a well-deserved name in ...

Some columnists such as Erdal Şafak and Taha Akyol see the new Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as an extraordinary minister and praise him every chance they have. So do I see Davutoğlu as an ...