Pamuk's lawyer slams Turkish justice minister
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan   Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting   his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an   article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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This year's Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has said he was saddened by poor relations between his native Turkey and the EU, but insisted his role as author was not to build bridges between cultures.
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Turkey's top general calls for more demonstrations in defence of secularism after a judge's murder.
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A former cabinet minister launched an attack on Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday, criticising him over a "foolish" appointment and his lack of support for senior ministers.
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Iran's 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Saturday complained that the conservative judiciary had summoned her to court again without saying why.
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Israel&#39;s justice minister has accused Right-wing rabbis of fomenting &quot;civil war&quot;, saying they could face prosecution for urging soldiers to disobey orders to evict Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey&#39;s prime minister has lashed out at the European Union and said it &quot;should not become involved in Turkey&#39;s internal affairs.
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The regional government of Iraqâs semi-autonomous Kurdish region condemned a cross-border incursion of Turkish troops on Tuesday.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey  - The Turkish prime minister harshly rejected European Union criticism Friday over a proposal to outlaw adultery and hinted the government might press forward with the ban despite warnings it could jeopardize Turkey's entry into the bloc.
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Sudan's humanitarian affairs minister says accusations against him of war crimes in Darfur  are political.
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Lawyers representing the exiled former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, filed petitions against the government, accusing it of abducting him and of acting in contempt of the court.
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One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" &#151; a crime Western-looking Turks view as an embarrassment and one of the biggest obstacles to joining the European Union.
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THE HAGUE Foreign Minister Ben Bot of the Netherlands, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, on Sunday criticized French and Austrian plans to hold referendums on Turkish membership in the EU, saying such moves could keep Turkey out
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ANGRY supporters of Abu Bakar Bashir have attacked a star prosecution witness as he testified in court that the radical cleric was the leader of terror group Jemaah Islamiah.
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A Sudanese Cabinet minister slammed the latest UN report on Darfur, accusing the world body Saturday of overlooking violence committed
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The head of Turkey's highest judicial body says comments made by Recep Tayyip Erdogan appear to question the impartiality of the court.
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Former Turkish PM Mesut Yilmaz appears in court to face corruption charges over a banking scandal.