Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting over Egypt's bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, which has left hundreds dead.
"The Security Council of the United Nations should convene quickly to discuss the situation in Egypt," Erdogan told reporters in Ankara.

Iran condemned what it called a "massacre" in Egypt as police moved on Wednesday to clear protests in Cairo by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, Fars news agency reported.
The crackdown by Egypt's security forces on two protest camps in the capital quickly turned into a bloodbath, with dozens of people killed and scores injured.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone Wednesday to discuss developments in Syria and Egypt, the White House said.
During the course of the call, requested by Erdogan, the two "discussed the danger of foreign extremists in Syria and agreed on the importance of supporting a unified and inclusive" opposition, it said in a statement.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned against any plans for an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Syria as officials met the leader of the war-torn country's main Kurdish group Friday.
Turkish government officials held talks with Saleh Muslim, the leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) which is seen as the Syrian branch of Turkey's banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday hit back at critics who wrote an open letter published in British daily The Times blasting his handling of the civil unrest which engulfed Turkey last month.
"Treating our government as 'dictatorial' only shows impertinence...," Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul, referring to the letter.

Rebels from the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Friday accused Ankara of deliberately derailing a fragile peace process designed to end nearly three decades of conflict.
"It is clear that the government is behind efforts to sabotage the peace process," said a PKK statement reported by Kurdish news agency Firat.

A 19-year-old university student who was hurt during anti-government protests that rocked Turkey last month has died from his injuries, bringing the death toll in the unrest to five, local media reported on Wednesday.
Ali Ismail Korkmaz, who joined the demos on June 2 in the central Anatolian city of Eskisehir, suffered a brain hemorrhage when unidentified assailants attacked him while he was fleeing from tear gas, the Dogan News Agency reported.

Turkey's foreign minister on Monday denounced the killing of 35 activists in Egypt who demonstrated against last week's military coup that unseated president Mohammed Morsi.
"I strongly condemn the massacre during the morning prayers on behalf of the fundamental values of humanity that we have defended," Ahmet Davutoglu wrote in a message on Twitter.

Turkey's prime minister on Friday condemned the military intervention that toppled Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi as an enemy of democracy, and chastised the West for failing to brand the ouster a coup.
Referring to his country's history of coups, Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that such military uprisings come at a heavy price and must not be tolerated.

Turkey on Thursday said the military intervention that ousted Egypt's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi did not reflect the people's will and urged the country to "return to democracy.”
Turkey's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) government -- which grappled with its own mass anti-government demonstrations last month -- had established friendly ties with Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement.
