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US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Seoul for the start of a four-day tour of Asia, his first visit to the region and his first diplomatic crisis ...

Votes of political parties who cite immigrants as main reason for security problems, unemployment, crimes and poverty on rise, said President Gul ANKARA Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Thursday said ...

Lazio: 1 - Fenerbahce: 1   ROME Turkey's Fenerbahce football team qualified for semi-finals in the UEFA Europa League after a 1-1 draw in Rome that earned the Istanbul side ...

The year was 1982. I was in London for business. While I was in my hotel room, the phone rang. It was former governor and former director general of public ...

In two weeks, economic policymakers from around the world will gather in Washington, D.C., for the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings. As has been the case for the past five years, there ...

‘Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town’ by Christopher de Bellaigue (Penguin, 2011, 35TL, pp 288) Christopher de Bellaigue was Turkey correspondent for The Economist during ...

The Arab Spring gave the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates the chance to play vital roles in the Egyptian, Tunisian and Libyan revolutions. But now the organisation has itself become the target of violent ...

THE blue-glass skyscrapers of Moscow City — fragments of Russia’s boom-time dream — are visible from the Kremlin walls, within which there was once hope that those towers could supplant ...

Pluto’s Gate, the legendary portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition, has been located in Turkey, according to Italian archaeologists, Discovery News reported. Pluto’s Gate – known as Ploutonion in Greek and ...

Overview By legend the birthplace of the ancient Greek goddess of love Aphrodite, Cyprus's modern history has, in contrast, been dominated by enmity between its Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Cyprus ...