Friday, 20 May, 2016 , 12:07 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday lauded as "historic" a hotly-contested bill that could see dozens of MPs including pro-Kurdish lawmakers evicted from parliament.

Friday, 20 May, 2016 , 11:57 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday lauded as "historic" a hotly-contested bill that could see dozens of MPs including pro-Kurdish lawmakers evicted from parliament.

Friday, 20 May, 2016 , 11:08 AFP — Turkey's parliament on Friday adopted the first clause of a bill that could lift immunity for dozens of pro-Kurdish and other MPs and see them evicted from parliament, sparking fresh domestic and international concern.

Friday, 20 May, 2016 , 10:42 AFP — German Chancellor Angela Merkel will raise concerns over democracy in Turkey when she meets President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week, her spokesman said Friday, as Ankara began a final vote on a contentious bill lifting parliamentary immunity.

Friday, 20 May, 2016 , 09:22 AFP — Turkey's parliament began a final vote Friday on a controversial bill that could strip dozens of pro-Kurdish and other lawmakers of their parliamentary immunity and drive them out of the legislature.

Thursday, 19 May, 2016 , 08:56 AFP — A Turkish military helicopter which crashed last week during an operation against Kurdish rebels in the country's restive southeast may have been shot down, the army said Thursday.

Wednesday, 18 May, 2016 , 14:41 AFP — Four Turkish soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded on Wednesday in an attack on a military convoy blamed on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the army said.

Tuesday, 17 May, 2016 , 21:20 AFP — The Turkish parliament on Tuesday approved, in a preliminary vote, a controversial bill that would strip dozens of deputies of their parliamentary immunity and which pro-Kurdish lawmakers say is directly aimed at driving them out of the legislature.

Tuesday, 17 May, 2016 , 18:08 AFP — An explosion on Tuesday killed an Australian demining expert working to clear an area of northern Iraq that Kurdish forces recaptured from the Islamic State group, his employer said.

Tuesday, 17 May, 2016 , 15:00 AFP — The Turkish parliament on Tuesday began debating a hugely controversial bill that would strip dozens of deputies of their parliamentary immunity and which pro-Kurdish lawmakers say is directly aimed at driving them out of the legislature.