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 ...

Hulya Elevli: “I’m not changing my clothes because I’m thinking, ‘They can’t change theirs over there.’” Some of the donations ready to be boxed and shipped to Turkey. Hulya Elevli has spent every day ...

A Muslim cleric walks along a former Byzantine church which formally opened as a mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, May 6, 2024. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the Hagia Sophia museum, one of Istanbul's most famous landmarks, to be converted into a mosque. Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET He made the announcement ...

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 ...

Faruk Gulseren has been working for over a year to help build a mosque in New Haven. When tragedy recently struck the local Turkish community, he found another reason to keep up his efforts. Gulseren, ...