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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.

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”.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sarajevo on Wednesday on a trip packed with diplomatic and business events and designed to highlight close Turkish ties to Bosnia - an almost half-Muslim country and a former province of the Ottoman Empire.

Erdogan calls on Europe "to take in more migrants"

TIRANA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to take in more migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq.

Turkish authorities jailed two judges who are accused of setting dozens of political enemies of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan, free.

The two judges freed journalists and around 60 police officers who were arrested last year on charges of conspiracy against the President.

The son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Ergodan, Bilal, and the latter’s wife, will arrive in the northeast Greece city of Xanthi on Sunday to attend a Muslim religious ceremony in the nearby village of Echinos.
The report was disseminated on Friday by Turkish media.

Hours after voting ended in an “election” in the breakaway Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, ever-present Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was quick to “crack the whip” at the man elected to represent the Turkish Cypriot community.   

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stirred a heated debate in Turkey by reading an Islamic-toned, patriotic poem in a television commercial filmed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Turkish victory in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will be paying an official visit to Turkey on April 13-14, the parliament's press office has said in a statement.

Gojkovic will meet with Turkey's Parliament Speaker Jemil Cicek and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.