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,...

Net activists in Turkey say a proposed law to tighten censorship online won't stop them. The move to block websites comes as the government faces high legal corruption allegations. Turkey's largest city Istanbul has again seenriot police clash with protestors. This month the protesters have been demonstrating against government legislation that's ...

Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? has blasted prosecutor Zekeriya z for accusing the prime minister of threatening him, slamming him for making a show. Its time that in Turkey we separate those who are making a show and dispensing justice. The Prime Ministers Office made a statement and said [claims brought up by z] were slander, Bozda? told reporters ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Turkish government removed police chiefs in 16 provinces, including the capital of Ankara overnight amid a corruption probe that has shaken the country, local media reported on Wednesday. The removed police chiefs also include those from major provinces of Diyarbakir, Izmir, Adana, Antalya. Earlier, they were summoned to the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Around 350 Turkish police officers were removed from their posts in Ankara overnight, CNN Turk said on Tuesday, in the biggest single reported police shakeup since a corruption probe rocked the government last month. Hundreds of police have been dismissed or reassigned across the country since the graft investigation emerged on December ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has called on the countrys judiciary to remain impartial while investigating corruption accusations against the government. On Friday, Gul made the remarks in a Turkish television interview in the capital Ankara in his first extensive comments on last month'sgraft probe. "The legislative and executive powers are ...

(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 ...

The Turkish military says it"doesnotwant to" intervene in the deepening corruption crisis that has hit the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "The Turkish Armed Forces do not want to get involved in political debates," the military said in a Friday statement. The statement came after Yalcin Akdogan, a close aide of Erdogan, warned ...

Thousands of people in Turkey have poured into the streets across the country, calling on the administration of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to step down amid a growing corruption scandal. Late on Wednesday, some 5,000 people staged a massive protest rally in the districts of Kadikoy and Besiktas in Istanbul, where riot police fired teargas ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his ruling AK Party will not put up with corruption following resignations of three cabinet members over a huge graft probe that has plagued the government. The AK Party does not overlook or tolerate corruption. If it does, it will have removed its raison d'etre, Erdogan told a meeting of his party ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reshuffled his cabinet after resignations of three ministers over a graft probe. Erdogan presented a new list of cabinet ministers to President Abdullah Gul on Wednesday. The Turkish premier replaced the economy, interior, and environment ministers. The ministers' sons have all been arrested as ...