Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogans government, mired in a corruption scandal, suffered a new blow on Sunday with the online release of another allegedly incriminating phone call involving an ex-minister and a businessman. The recording of the phone conversation posted on the Internet was purportedly between Reza Zarrab, an Azerbaijani entrepreneur,...

Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse several thousand protesters chanting anti-government slogans " in Istanbul as the fallout from a corruption scandal intensified. The protest in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul came after Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused political enemies of faking a recording of a phone conversation ...

The Justice and Development Partys Burdur Deputy Hasan Hami Y?ld?r?m announced his resignation today, becoming the fifth lawmaker to part ways with the ruling party amid an ongoing major corruption operation. Y?ld?r?m criticized the removal of the head prosecutor in a second corruption case reported to be wider than the probe that began Dec. 17. Prosecutor ...

(Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan swore on Sunday he would survive a corruption crisis circling his cabinet, saying those seeking his overthrow would fail just like mass anti-government protests last summer. Erdogan accused his opponents of trying to sap the power ofTurkey, which has seen rapid economic growth and assertive foreign ...

Turkey's military has said it does not want to get involved in "political arguments", amid a major political corruption scandal. The crisis has forced Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reshuffle his cabinet following the resignations of three ministers. The ministers' sons were among dozens of people detained as part of a wide-ranging corruption ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip denounced a corruption crackdown on his allies months ahead of elections as a "dirty operation" to smear his administration and undermine the country's progress. He said on Wednesday that those behind the investigation were trying to form a "state within a state", an apparent reference to the movement ...