NICOSIA, Cyprus, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- President Tassos Papadopoulos of Cyprus and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat have agreed to resume their peace talks.

PARIS, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Turkey faces a political, a military and a foreign policy crisis all at once, which means the U.S. may have to choose between its new Kurdish friends and its traditional Turkish ally.

ANKARA, Turkey, April 12 (UPI) -- The chief of the Turkish Army said Thursday that his country's military needs to cross into Iraq to crack down on Turkish Kurds there. "If you ask me whether a cross-border operation is needed, yes it is needed. It would be useful," Chief of the General S

ANKARA, Turkey, March 21 (UPI) -- Top Turkish military leaders call allegations that a general was involved in the bombing of a book store "more political than legal." Gen. Yasar Buyukanit was named in an indictment of three men charged with the bombing, the Los Angeles Times reported.

ANKARA, Turkey, March 8 (UPI) -- A powerful general in Turkey has been accused of trying to provoke conflicts with Kurdish separatists allegedly to keep his country out of the European Union.

BAGHDAD, July 5 (UPI) -- Turkish officials are protesting Saturday the detention of 11 of its soldiers by U.S. forces in Iraq.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 5 (UPI) -- Turkish officials Saturday are protesting the detention of 11 of its soldiers by U.S. forces in Iraq.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. troops in Iraq raiding Turkey's special unit office in Suleymaniye took into custody 11 Turkish soldiers, officials said Saturday.