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Turkey graft probe blocked as defiant PM digs in

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 01:22

A graft probe that has shaken Turkey`s government to its core and threatened Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan`s rule has been blocked, a prosecutor alleged Thursday.

Hit by scandal and resignations, Turk PM names new ministers

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 07:24

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday after three members quit over a corruption scandal that has posed an unprecedented challenge to his 11-year rule.

Police fire tear gas at Istanbul anti-government protesters

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 21:58

Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of demonstrators in Istanbul protesting against corruption allegations that have ensnared cabinet ministers.

Ministers` sons, state bank chief charged in Turkish graft investigation

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 15:24

Sixteen people, including the sons of two ministers, were charged on Saturday in connection with a Turkish corruption investigation that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has called a "dirty operation" aimed at undermining his rule, media said.

Scandal-hit Turkey PM presses police purge

Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 11:46

Turkish prosecutors have begun charging some of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan`s closest allies in a huge graft scandal he has responded to with a spectacular purge of the police.

Turkey suspends trial over century-old French erotic novel

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 00:43

An Istanbul court suspended the trial of a Turkish publisher and a translator accused of corrupting public morals over a French book written more than a century ago.

‘Turkish police detain sons of three ministers in bribery probe’

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 14:25

Turkish police have detained the sons of three cabinet ministers as part of an investigation into alleged bribery linked to public tenders, several Turkish newspapers reported on Tuesday.

GMR Infra says Istanbul airport stake sale not concluded

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 19:24

Malaysia Airports Holdings and TAV Havalimanlari are in separate talks with GMR to buy its 40 percent in Sabiha Gokcen airport, one of Istanbul`s two airports, sources told Reuters last week.

Turkey charges 255 over mass protests

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 01:39

Turkish prosecutors said today they have charged 255 protesters, including seven foreigners, over mass demonstrations that swept the country in June.

Six dead as immigrant boat sinks off Turkey

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 10:10

Six people, including a child, has drowned after a boat carrying illegal immigrants trying to reach Greece capsized off western Turkey, according to officials and reports.

Turkey detains 1,080 illegal migrants

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 09:47

The Turkish police detained 1,080 illegal migrants in 11 simultaneous operations against human trafficking networks in its western coasts Friday, media reports said.

Israeli troops fired from air in 2010 ship raid: Turkish court

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 23:23

An anti-war activist told a Turkish court on Thursday that Israeli commandos opened fire from a helicopter during a raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship three years ago, countering Israeli assertions that the soldiers had acted in self defense.