Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long been accused of seeking to impose religion on Turkey's mainly Muslim but ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — 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 ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Turkey’s president traveled Thursday to Albania’s capital to inaugurate a Turkish-funded mosque with 50-meter-high (160-foot-high) minarets as part of a trip to boost ties and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s famous Blue Mosque but did not stop to pray, as he opened an intense day of meetings and ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI prayed alongside an Islamic cleric in one of Turkey’s most famous mosques Thursday in a dramatic gesture of outreach to Muslims after outrage from the pontiff ...