A Kurdish protester was shot dead and two others wounded on Tuesday during violent clashes with the Turkish security forces in southeast Turkey, an Agence France Presse reporter said. 

A newly unveiled statue of a militant commander who planned the first attacks of the Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year insurgency against the Turkish authorities is to be demolished, a court ruled on Monday.

The monument to Mahsum Korkmaz, a PKK commander killed in 1986, was just unveiled on Saturday in the village of Yolacti in the majority Kurdish Diyarbakir province in southeast Turkey.

Turkey said it had summoned the German ambassador Monday to demand an explanation following reports that Berlin has been spying on the country for years.

German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that the BND secret service had spied on Turkey since 2009 and had listened in on at least one telephone conversation including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Turkey's outgoing President Abdullah Gul is not being considered as a possible successor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan as prime minister, a senior ruling party official said Sunday.

Erdogan is set to be sworn in as president on August 28 after his first-round election victory, and some observers had seen his longtime ally Gul as a possible replacement as prime minister.

The Turkish authorities will thoroughly investigate a report that Germany has been spying on its NATO ally since 2009, a senior official said Sunday, saying the claims need to be taken seriously.

German weekly Der Spiegel reported that the German secret service the BND has been spying on Turkey since 2009, as well as accidentally intercepting at least one telephone conversation of US Secretary of State John Kerry.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's 30-year conflict with Turkey is coming to an end, the group's jailed leader said on Saturday, hailing the start of a new democratic process in the country.

The PKK, which for three decades fought a bloody insurgency for self-rule for Turkey's Kurdish minority that cost 40,000 lives, launched its armed struggle on August 15, 1984.

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has strongly backed the naming of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as the new premier and party leader to replace president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a pro-government daily said Saturday.

The executive committee of the AKP is due to meet on Thursday to formally agree the successor to Erdogan, who by law must give up both his current posts as premier and party leader when he becomes president on August 28.

German intelligence listened in on at least one telephone conversation of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and has spied on NATO ally Turkey for years, Der Spiegel will report on Sunday.

The German weekly says the secret service BND intercepted a conversation involving Kerry "by accident" in 2013.

Turkey's relief agency said Friday it was time for the world to start "sharing the burden" for the 1.2 million Syrian refugees it is hosting, especially those living outside of refugee camps.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled the civil war to neighboring Turkey in the last three years after Prime Minister and now president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced an open-door policy.

Turkey's president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will meet on August 21 to agree on his successor as party leader and prime minister, newspapers reported Friday.

Erdogan, who won presidential elections on August 10 in the first round, must by law step down not only as prime minister but also as AKP leader when he is sworn in as president on August 28.