Turkey

Frustrated by Europe and the U.S., Ankara is bolstering its ties with Iran, Syria and Iraq.

Ahmet Yildiz was shot last year outside his apartment in Istanbul, in what may have been the first “honor killing” of a gay man to gain public attention.

The investigation of an underground group known as Ergenekon has strained ties between a secular elite and a growing population of observant Muslims.

Along a favored route for smuggling on the Aegean, an age-old tension between Greece, an E.U. member, and Turkey, an E.U.-hopeful, plays out.

The plan to let the Kurdish language be used in the media and political campaigns will be debated by Parliament, but the fact that it is being discussed at all is considered to be a landmark.

Baghdad’s first trade fair since the invasion six years ago attracted 396 companies, but only a few from the United States.

Prosecutors allege that an underground organization has committed dozens of terrorist acts and sought to topple Turkey’s Islamic-inspired government.