Turkey's defense ministry says five military academy graduates and three of their immediate superiors have been dismissed from the armed forces for taking a pro-secular oath during their graduation ceremony.

Turkey has marked the 100th anniversary of the creation of the modern, secular republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire with little pageantry and no gala reception to commemorate the important milestone.

The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29.

The head of Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog says it has launched an investigation into claims that digital platform Disney+ pulled a series on Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Turkey's president has canceled a day of election campaigning to rest at home, a day after he was forced to briefly interrupt a television interview over a stomach complaint.

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U_S_ ambassador in Ankara to protest the U_S_ decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”.

Visitors walk inside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. A government decree reopened the jewel of the Byzantine Empire for Muslim worship and abolished its status as a museum. The 21-year-old immediately turned the majestic Hagia Sophia into a mosque as an emblem of Muslim triumph over the city. However, Atakurk's decision to cease Hagia Sophia's use as a mosque was met with dismay by religious and nationalist groups. Opening up Hagia Sophia to Muslim prayers is also seen as a part of Erdogans efforts to deepen Turkeys Muslim identity and to roll back his predecessor's secular legacy.