Ahmet Davutoglu

Turkish military attacks Islamic State in Syria with rockets, wounds civilians

Turkish artillery hit Islamic State (IS) targets in neighbouring Syria on Tuesday, after rockets landed in a border town, wounding several people, an official said.

Turkey blasts: Four police killed and 14 injured in bomb attack in Diyarbakir

Four police officers were killed and 14 people wounded in a bomb attack on Thursday targeting the Turkish police in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir, a security source said.

Turkish journalists go on trial in landmark press freedom case

Two top Turkish journalists go on trial Friday accused of espionage and other serious crimes and facing possible life in prison over a story about Turkey's role in the Syrian conflict that infuriated strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The refugee issue is not an issue of bargaining, says Turkish premier

Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu warned EU leaders ahead of crunch talks Friday that Ankara's offer to curb the refugee flow to Europe was strictly a humanitarian rather than a "bargaining" issue.

European Union leaders to press Turkey, back Greece at migrant summit

European Union leaders arrived in Brussels Monday to press Turkey to do more to stop migrants from entering Europe and to shore up support for Greece, where thousands of people are stranded.

Syria truce 'not binding' for Turkey if security threatened: PM

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday said a ceasefire agreed between Syria's warring parties was only valid inside Syria and was "not binding" for Turkey if its national security was threatened.

A case of mistaken identity: DNA report suggests Ankara bomber was not Syrian, but Turkish

ANKARA A DNA report from a suicide bombing that killed 29 people in the Turkish capital Ankara last week suggests the main perpetrator was Turkish-born, not Syrian as initially stated by the government, a senior Turkish security official said on Tuesday. A car laden with explosives detonated next to military buses as they waited at traffic lights near Turkey's armed forces' headquarters, parliament and government buildings in the administrative heart of Ankara last Wednesday. The next day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish YPG militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for the attack, naming him as Salih Necar, born in 1992, and from the Hasakah region of northern Syria.

Missiles hit schools and hospitals, kill 50 in Syria; Turkey accuses Russia of 'obvious war crimes'

Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border.

Turkey PM Erdogan accuses Kurdish party chief Demirtas of 'treason' over call for autonomy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday accused Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the main Kurdish party, of "treason" after the latter said that Turkey's largest ethnic minority had to decide whether to live in autonomy or "under one man's tyranny".

Turkey to grant legal status to minority Muslims 'cemevi'

Turkey's prime minister has announced a series of reforms his new government aims to implement within the next three and six months, including granting legal status to the minority Alevi Muslims' places of worship.