The Turkish Prime Minister has accused his political rivals of hacking secure government communications networks to plant a fraudulent phone conversation during which he reportedly instructs his son to hide millions of Euros.

On Thursday, Turkish police attempted to break up about 2,000 anti-government protestors in Ankara. In the middle the crackdown, police blasted Husna Sari, a reporter from Ulusal TV, with a water cannon.

It's disturbing to imagine a street food vendor shoving an ice cream cone in your pants without permission, but this ice cream man in Istanbul's Old City makes the reality seem so fun.

Less than a week after police forcibly removed demonstrators from Istanbul's central Taksim square, Turkish anti-government protestors re-occupied the space—without fanfare, violence, planning or noise.

After a day and a night of violent clashes, Turkish police managed to force anti-government protestors out of Istanbul's central Taksim Square, leaving behind only the remnants of protestors' barricades and the lingering smell of tear gas.

Police in Istanbul returned to the city's Taksim Square this evening, continuing another day of clashes with protesters who have been occupying the public space for nearly two weeks.

Armed with tear gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets, Turkish police moved in on Taksim Square early Tuesday morning, preparing to clear the area of the anti-government protestors who have occupying it for over a week.

A good way to show the world you're not the autocratic leader your opponents claim is to allow them to protest peacefully. A bad way is to arrest activists for tweeting. Guess which Turkish Prime Minister chose the bad way?

Thousands of people have gathered in Istanbul and elsewhere in Turkey, organizing under the hashtag "Occupy Gezi" and broadcasting scenes of brutal police violence to the world. But why are they there? What are they protesting? And do I need to care? Let's figure it out.

What started as a protest against a development project that will demolish a vital city park has become a widespread and angry protest against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with scenes that echo the Arab Spring.

Thousands of protesters camped out in Istanbul's Gezi Park to save what they say is the last public green space in the city were greeted with tear gas and pepper spray today when police arrived.

Barack Obama and a visiting foreigner just had a press conference, but nobody cares about the other country (Turkey?) because there are scandals afoot in Washington, so everything's about Eric Holder always doing terrible things. Eric Holder is Obama's friend. So he won't be fired unless all of this doesn't go away in…

A suicide bomber struck inside the American embassy in Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Friday, killing a Turkish embassy worker and the suicide bomber. According to investigators, the bomber panicked at the security checkpoint and detonated the bomb early.

The White House is putting its annual turkey pardon to a Facebook poll, allowing anyone to vote on which turkey—Cobbler or Gobbler—will be blessed by Obama this Thanksgiving. But what could have been a profound glimpse into the very heart of Death is just a meaningless gimmick, because neither turkey is actually at…

NATO convened an emergency meeting today after a Syrian mortar attack that apparently left five Turkish civilians dead. Turkey retaliated with an artillery strike on Syrian military targets, and for a few brief minutes that afternoon we were all, like, "UHHHH."

Hey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, you have something that belongs to Turkey. Eighteen somethings, in fact, according to the country's recent campaign to reclaim its antiquities.