Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in Turkey's most famous mosque Thursday in a dramatic gesture of outreach to Muslims after outrage from the pontiff's remarks linking violence and ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

The role of women in Islam is an issue that's been furiously debated, especially in Turkey — an overwhelmingly Muslim country with a strict secular constitution. The governing pro-Islamic political ...

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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The traditional lighting that hangs between the minarets of Turkish mosques, usually packed for evening prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, is urging Turks to stay at home this ...

The imam of the Khadija Mosque, in the Pankow district of Berlin, talks to visitors. Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A state-run mosque in southeastern Turkey held the country's first official Kurdish-language sermon this weekend, part of the government's efforts to boost rights for ...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Shoeless and dressed simply in white, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in modern history to enter a mosque when he prayed Thursday alongside a senior cleric in Istanbul’s ...