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Doğan News Agency The president of the Kurdish Regional Administration, Mesut Barzani, has called on the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and start civil dialogue, while speaking...

Hürriyet Daily News Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) lawmakers began yesterday a two-day hunger strike at the party headquarters in solidarity with jailed colleagues fasting in prison to protest...

Hürriyet Daily News The the intra-party opposition in the Republican People’s Party plans to block the first convention scheduled for Feb 26 and pass their amendments to the party...

The much-loved Turkish film director Yusuf Kurçenli passed away on Tuesday evening at the Medical Park Göztepe Hospital following a long battle with cancer. Kurçenli, who had been receiving...

Holders Porto crashed out of the Europa League after a 4-0 thumping at Manchester City completed a 6-1 aggregate win for the English Premier League leaders on Wednesday. Trailing...

First-time visitors to Turkey are often surprised by the homogeneity of the architecture. It doesn’t matter where they go. Everywhere they see the same high-rise apartment-cum-shopping blocks. Rarely do...

What do you imagine when you think of Turkey? Maybe it’s the mosques and the palaces, but maybe it’s the lovely old wooden houses that were once a mainstay...

For the convert, the allure of mountains dressed in their winter garb of snow and ice is self-evident. The silence and solitude of a virgin-white landscape, snow-crystals glittering under...

“‘The Greeks were terrible to me,’ I said, ‘I have come for the protection of the Turks’.” These words, uttered by American novelist and writer Mary Lee Settle to...

Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each with its church tower punctuating the skyline.  Imagine golden-stoned houses...