Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu speaks to the media at Kocatepe Mosque, in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020 ...

FILE - Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu speaks to the media at Kocatepe Mosque, in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File) ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court on ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque. The move came four years after Erdogan’s government had ...

A mourning crowd at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, the day after a failed coup attempt by the Turkish military in which at least 265 people died, including soldiers, police, and civilians, July 2016 ...

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 ...