A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed, threatening to shut down the social media network indefinitely if it ignores the directive, state media said Monday. 

The ruling came after Turkish prosecutors investigated the social media pages following a deadly attack on the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in war-torn Somalia on Sunday amid tight security, a rare visit by a foreign leader to the war-torn nation.

Hundreds of soldiers and police officers had shut down much of the capital's streets, where on Thursday five people were killed in a suicide attack on a hotel housing the Turkish delegation in Mogadishu.

Turkey's ex-president Abdullah Gul has broken a months-long silence to call for greater democracy, in an apparent message to his strongman successor Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a report said Friday.

Gul -- who had not spoken about politics since he handed over the presidency to Erdogan in August -- also suggested Turkish leaders should adopt a less confrontational style in politics.

At least five people were killed Thursday in a suicide car bombing against a hotel in Mogadishu on the eve of a visit to the Somali capital by Turkey's president, police said.

Sources at the hotel, situated close to the heavily-fortified presidential palace, said there were around 70 members of a Turkish delegation in the hotel at the time, but none of them were killed or seriously hurt in the blast.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called on Muslim states to speak with one voice against terrorism and racism, positioning himself once again as a key leader of the Islamic world.

Addressing a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Erdogan said Islamic states had to defeat the successors of the iconic British officer Lawrence of Arabia who were seeking to disrupt the Middle East.

Two Turkish police were jailed Wednesday for at least 10 years for beating to death a teenager in 2013 protests against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sparking fresh protests as critics slammed the verdicts for being absurdly lenient.

The court in the central city of Kayseri sentenced Mevlut Saldogan to 10 years and 10 months in prison and fellow police officer Yalcin Akbulut to 10 years for the killing of Ali Ismail Korkmaz, 19, in the western city of Eskisehir on June 2, 2013.

Turkey's ruling party was Wednesday shaken by a rare rebellion by its lawmakers in a key late night vote on whether to send to trial four former ex-ministers accused in a 2013 graft investigation.

The Turkish parliament voted against putting the ministers on trial, drawing a line under a scandal that shook President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.

Turkey on Tuesday arrested 23 people, including former senior officials in its telecoms and science agencies, in a new wave of raids against suspects accused of wire-tapping senior officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The official Anatolia news agency said prosecutors issued warrants for 28 people in Ankara, Istanbul and other cities, with those arrested former employees of the telecommunications agency TIB and the TUBITAK science and technology agency.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday chaired a cabinet meeting for the first time as head of state, in a move aimed at cementing his role as Turkey's undisputed number one.

Erdogan, who took over the presidency in August elections after more than a decade as premier, hosted the cabinet at his own hugely controversial presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was chairing a cabinet meeting on Monday for the first time as head of state, in a move aimed at cementing his role as Turkey's undisputed number one.

Erdogan, who took over the presidency in August elections after more than a decade as premier, hosted the cabinet meeting at his own hugely controversial presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara.