ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Turkish prosecutors could spend up to 280 hours in court reading aloud a 2,455-page indictment against 86 defendants accused of plotting a coup, observers say.

ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Kurds in southeastern Turkey continued protests Wednesday against alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met in the divided capital of Nicosia to discuss the island's 34-year political division.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 31 (UPI) -- A Turkish military official says he is concerned about talks to reunify the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, June 6 (UPI) -- Mehmet Ali Talat, president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, says he is optimistic about a new unified Cypriot state.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 23 (UPI) -- Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who shot Polish-born Pope John Paul II in 1981, wants to be a Polish citizen, his lawyer has announced.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, April 19 (UPI) -- Talks regarding the reunification of the island of Cyprus will take place at the end of June, Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said Saturday.

NICOSIA, Cyprus, April 3 (UPI) -- A politically significant crossing in Nicosia opened Thursday allowing Greek and Turkish Cypriots to travel in the world's only divided capital.