Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Melih Gökçek announced after a meeting with ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday that he would step down as Ankara mayor on Saturday.

The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee approved Thursday new draft rules according to which third country nationals exempt from visa requirements upon entering the Schengen area, including those from Macedonia, will need to apply for a travel authorization before coming...

Pro-government newspaper Akit reported on Sunday that the Ankara office of the Zaman group, which was seized unlawfully in March 2016, was sold to the Turkuvaz media group without any tender.

Austria's conservative People's Party (ÖVP), led by 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, is set to win the country's general election, projections suggest.

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) accused the Bulgarian, Croatian and Hungarian police of resorting to violence against migrants, notably children, in their bid to stop them from slipping into Europe, AFP reports.

Five hundred ninety-four children under the age of 6 are being kept with their mothers in Turkish prisons, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice said, the Diken news website reported on Tuesday.

A regional Turkish court has approved a 15-months prison sentence for Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish security forces in Diyarbakır during a TV program in 2016, Cumhuriyet reported on...

Catalan officials say at least 337 people have been injured in clashes as police try to prevent voting in Catalonia's independence referendum, BBC reports.