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 ...

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 ...

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 ...