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Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will start a third term of one-party rule strengthened by Sunday's decisive election victory but also burdened by the need for consensus to push ahead with plans for a new constitution. Erdogan will have to focus first on a pressing foreign policy issue...

Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkey is no stranger to name-calling and over-heated rhetoric, especially in the final days before a national election. In the run-up to parliamentary elections on June 12, however, politics have taken an unexpected turn, as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his...

Diyarbakir, Turkey (CNN) -- At a campaign rally in the predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan tried Wednesday to draw parallels between the oppression and persecution Turkey's largest ethnic minority has faced and the pressure...

Turkish government, military in agreement ANKARA, Turkey, The Turkish military agreed this week that 11 senior officers allegedly involved in an anti-government plot will not be promoted. President Abdullah Gul accepted the list that came out of the annual Supreme Military Council Wednesday...

Official: Danish PM confirms bid for NATO job -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPENHAGEN – Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who angered Muslims during the flap over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, confirmed Friday that he is a...