Tag: Turkey

The fourth annual Tanpınar Literature Festival will be held in four cities, with the theme “City and Fear.” The festival will begin Oct. 1-4 in Istanbul, and then will continue ...

A global children’s aid agency warned yesterday that Syrian children are being “badly traumatized” after witnessing killings, torture and other atrocities in their country’s brutal conflict Save the Children said ...

Liberal and conservative Roman Catholic activists have criticized the country’s bishops for declaring that believers who refuse to pay religious taxes will not be able to receive the sacrament, become ...

Japanese and Taiwanese coastguard ships exhange water cannons in the East China Sea, complicating a territorial dispute that has already strain Japan-China ties Coastguard vessels from Japan and Taiwan clashed ...

Top cleric Mehmet Görmez will deliver a speech at the German Parliament that will focus on his objection against the banning of religious symbols amid fierce debates over the circumcision ...

The Bosniak member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, expressed his admiration for Turkish schools and universities abroad in an exclusive Izetbegovic noted that Turkish schools abroad are ...

As only few days remain before the AKP’s major congress on Sept 30, PM Erdoğan invites Iraqi PM al-Maliki and avoids inviting Syrian and Israeli leaders In the run up ...

Turkish Minister of EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış has signaled that Turkey will block access to an anti-Islam movie which attacks the Prophet Muhammad and which sparked outrage ...

An inspiration to generations of musicians and music-lovers thanks to his fresh take on the centuries-old Anatolian musical tradition, Turkish folk master Neşet Ertaş loses his battle with cancer The ...

Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention -- a prosthetic foot made from ...