ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Turkish author Ipek Calislar was acquitted for allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, considered the founder of modern Turkey. The BBC reported that prosecutors claimed Calislar had insulted Ataturk in a biography of Ataturk's wife Latife, in which Ca

ANKARA, Turkey, May 31 (UPI) -- The German version of a Microsoft encyclopedia lists Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk among dictators including Adolf Hitler, a report said.

ANKARA, Turkey, May 18 (UPI) -- More than 20,000 Turkish citizens protested in Ankara Thursday, one day after a lawyer gunned down several judges, killing one and wounding four others.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- The private papers of the former wife of modern Turkey founder Kemal Ataturk -- kept in a vault for the last 25 years -- will not be published.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- The private papers of the woman who was briefly married to Turkey's founder will remain secret, the BBC reports.

ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced last it will restore some 16,300 Ottoman Empire era buildings scattered throughout the Balkans.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The European Union's first expansion to Eastern Europe last May -- 10 countries with a total population of 74 million -- seems to be working. Its second, due in

COLOGNE, Germany, May 28 (UPI) -- Extremist Islamic cleric Metin Kaplan, wanted in Turkey, has contacted German police through his lawyer, but has not turned himself in.

MUENSTER, Germany, May 26 (UPI) -- A German court has given permission to extradite an extremist Turkish cleric accused of plotting to blow up a Turkish memorial with an explosives-filled plane.