ANKARA, Turkey, April 30 (UPI) -- The Turkish parliament had a late-night session to appease Europe by amending its controversial law that makes insulting "Turkishness" a crime, officials said.

ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The Turkish government says it will change a controversial law used to prosecute anyone who denigrates Turkish identity.

STRASBOURG, France, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- President Abdullah Gul told the Council of Europe Wednesday no one is in prison in Turkey for controversial speech.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk reportedly is in exile in the United States, living in fear for his life.

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

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The French parliament's decision to make it a crime to deny that Armenians were victims of genocide by Turkey during World War I has deeply upset Turks.

OSLO, Norway, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded to deliver small loans to impoverished people have been selected for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, who writes of clashes between Islamic and Western cultures, has been selected to receive the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- A court in Istanbul dismissed charges against Turkish writer Elif Shafak, accused of insulting Turkishness in her book "The Bastard of Istanbul."