HAK-PAR leader calls for Diyarbakır Prison to be converted into museum Head of the Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR) Bayram Bozyel has called for Diyarbakır Prison -- a ... 06/09/2010 | Politics BDP, DTK delegation meets with Iraqi President Talabani A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and the BDP-affiliated Democratic ... 06/09/2010 | Politics EVENTS OF TOMORROW Tomorrow is Independence Day in Brazil. On this day in 1822, Dom Pedro II declared the independence ... 06/09/2010 | Arts & Culture Arınç: Juntas delayed Turkey's EU bid by half a century The generals who led coups d'état and overthrew governments in Turkey have never been held accountab... 04/09/2010 | Politics İstanbul beggars thrive on traditional, cultural codes Every year during Ramadan, İstanbul's beggar population -- estimated at more than 10,000 -- more tha... 04/09/2010 | Arts & Culture Davutoğlu joins political polemics, maintains civil tone Davutoğlu's messages during his tour of several cities have been dominated by his focus on the nati... 04/09/2010 | Politics Turkey global player as it assumes UN Security Council presidency Turkey remains undeterred in its desire to gain international support for its new role as mediator i... 04/09/2010 | Politics Ottoman princess to bring Jermaine Jackson to İstanbul for charity project İstanbul had a royal visit last week. Princess Nilüfer Cem Sultan visited the city as a guest of int... 04/09/2010 | Arts & Culture Youths express themselves against coups, for democracy Junta members who staged Turkey's bloodiest-ever coup d'état -- on Sept. 12, 1980 -- forced young pe... 04/09/2010 | Politics Journalist-writer Orhan Miroğlu: Should the high judiciary fail to change, Kurds will stay on the mountain With his writings on unsolved murders believed to have been committed by illegitimate units in the T... 04/09/2010 | Politics EVENT OF THE WEEK Turkey shaken by two separate recording scandals ... 04/09/2010 | Arts & Culture Involuntary boycotters of Diyarbakır hoping for a new movement on Sept. 13 Most of the people of Diyarbakır do not have any objection to the constitutional amendments that wil... 04/09/2010 | Politics