This isn't the first time the military has tried to seize power in the country. — -- A faction of the military in Turkey has attempted to take over the country's government in a coup, according ...

In a café at Istanbul Arel University, a group of friends — secular and religious, Kurdish and Turkish — gather to talk about their country’s changing identity. One topic of discussion among two of ...

In 1923, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Republic of Turkey upon the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Breaking with longstanding traditions of the empire, he abolished the caliphate and embraced a form ...

The history of the Turkish republic that celebrated its ninetieth anniversary on October 29 has been marked by societal discord and political convulsions: three military coups, violence between the ...

Turkey’s major cities are quiet today after a dramatic coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish military. There is still so much we do not yet know and may not know for quite some time. Had the ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. The escalating tensions ...

In the grand old city of Istanbul, there is a lot that’s newly built and stridently flashy. In the last decade or so entire swaths of steep, winding streets have been dug up and replaced with ...

The attempted military coup Friday in Turkey isn’t the first the country has seen: There have been several dating back to 1960. The first coup staged in Turkey came in 1960, when the military ...