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Istanbul Governor Mutlu stressed Turkish police intervened in Taksim only for cleaning, avoiding any clash. As marked by Governor of Istanbul Huseyin Avni Mutlu's remarks aimed to ease the tension, ...

Turkey’s stock market slid further on Monday after the prime minister accused banks, some of the country’s largest companies, economists and investors of encouraging the protests there so as to ...

Fourteen mentally and physically disabled children from the Bucak İsmail Şerife Care and Rehabilitation Center have formed a Janissary Band together. Bayram Keskin, the manager of the center, announced that ...

The ongoing Gezi protests have reached a different dimension over the course of two weeks and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is trying to fully analyze the movement, ...

South African ex-President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a Pretoria hospital where he is being treated for a recurrent lung infection. The office of President Jacob Zuma ...

Istanbul Governor Mutlu said the reason for the police entering Taksim Square was removing the banners and photos hung over Ataturk Cultural Center via Twitter. Governor of Istanbul Huseyin Avni ...

Afghan security forces have tackled heavily-armed militants who seized a building near the main airport in the capital Kabul. Officials said seven gunmen had been killed in the five-storey building ...

‘((CH3)2CHCH=CH(CH2)4CONHCH2C6H3-4-(OH)-3-(OCH3))’ is read as “8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide,” the active component of chili peppers, now the unintended “new” flavoring of a great number of Istanbul’s residents. Turkish cuisine, especially the regional cookery of ...

Some 23,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the east German city of Magdeburg after a dam burst on the flood-swollen River Elbe. Although water levels in Magdeburg ...

As Iran's presidential election draws closer, many Iranians are still deciding who to vote for - or whether to vote at all. Of the 680 candidates who registered to run ...