Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Amid exotic smells of Ottoman incense and Turkish controversies, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gives journalists a tour of the controversial presidential palace. Here is a photo story by daily Hürriyet's Ümit Çetin.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday to form the country's new government, todayszaman.com reported.

The move comes more than a month after Turkey's parliamentary elections in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority and no party won enough seats to form a government.

Bulgaria will have to count on two prospective gas pipeline projects to secure to fulfill its recent dream and become a key player on the energy map, Austrian daily Wirtschaftsblatt says in an article.

The text is mostly focused on the now ditched South Stream pipeline and the hopes Bulgaria is pinning on alternative projects that are being put forward.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should cease his delaying tactics and provide a mandate to form a government, according to Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu

Watching Tuesday?s swearing-in ceremony for newly elected deputies, one could not help thinking that this is a parliament which truly represents the ?New Turkey,? and not the one the Justice and Development Party (AKP) talked about when it held the parliamentary majority and called the shots.

The decision of the Romanian Prime Minister to attend the opening of the first European Games in Baku on Friday was slammed by many in Romania, including the country's President.

Most leaders of EU countries have boycotted the opening of the games out of concern for Azerbaijan's human rights record.

By Alexis Papachelas

Turkish security forces on June 13 used water cannon and fired warning shots to push Syrians away from the frontier as thousands massed at a border crossing to escape escalating fighting, an AFP photographer said.

According to Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is “the loser” of the June 7 parliamentary election and must resign from his post

Work on joint large-scale energy projects is expected to be on the agenda of a meeting between the presidents of Russia and Turkey in Baku on 13 June, the Kremlin said on Thursday.