Recep Tayyip Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “seems open to all kinds of coalition” formulas, Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker and former party leader Deniz Baykal said after his two-hour meeting with the president on June 10

The deciding factor in Sunday's parliamentary elections in Turkey was the emergence of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, or HDP, Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor writes in an article on the implications of voting results.

What a difference a little geography will make. With 36 percent of the general vote taken in January 2015 Greece’s leftist SYRIZA points to a “people’s mandate”, whereas in neighboring Turkey 41 percent for the AKP party is a first-place showing, nevertheless, but one greeted with frowns by its supporters and jubilation by the opposition.

Polling stations across Turkey opened at 8 o'clock local time in the country's general elections.

The elections are deemed crucial for the plans of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to change the constitution and turn Turkey into a presidential republic.

Turkish transgender woman Deva Ozenen didn’t know if she’d ever find a way out of prostitution twenty years ago. She faced daily discrimination and violence and sex work was all she could do to support herself. Now, the tide has turned in Turkey and the 37-year-old is making history by vying for a seat in Turkish Parliament on June 7.

A prosecutor in Turkey has demanded a life sentence for Can Dündar, Editor-in-chief at daily Cumhuriyet, Turkish news outlets report.

Separately, an aggravated life sentence and 42 years of imprisonment have been requested.

The Turkish government has seized control of Bank Asya following a 18-month long political battle between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen - a move seen as increasing risk premium for Turkish assets a week before parliamentary elections.

Hundreds of Turkish citizens defied stepped-up security measures in Istanbul adopted for the second anniversary since the Gezi Park protests.

In 2013, what started as an environmental demonstration grew into days-long rallies against the government of then PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan which culminated violently.

An increasingly authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the New York Times of meddling in the affairs of his country through a critical article. In fact, he told the influential US paper to “know your place”.

He stated that the editorial “literally gave orders to the United States”.