Tag: Turkey

Mohamed Morsi, overthrown as Egypt’s president in July, appears in court for the first time, denying the legitimacy of those prosecuting him. Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi struck a defiant ...

Ahmet Kaya was a Kurdish singer born in 1957 in Malatya, southeastern Turkey. He was phenomenally popular and sold millions of records in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also an anti-Kemalist artist who ...

The European Union says it has agreed to resume membership talks with Turkey. Turkey first applied for full membership of what was then the European Economic Community in 1987. The ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul urged international community to take a solid stance on Syria to prevent "something like Afghanistan on the shores of Mediterranean." Gul, during his continueing visit in ...

A volcano in western Indonesia erupted twice Sunday, hurling red-hot ash and rocks up to seven kilometres into the air and forcing more than 1,000 people to flee their homes. ...

More than 30 years after "Star Wars," Harrison Ford has returned to inter-stellar space battles in big-budget sci-fi spectacular "Ender's Game." But the 71-year-old insists it's the human relations rather ...

Greece’s second largest city has of course a special place in the minds and hearts of Turks since it is the birth place of Atatürk, the Republic’s founder. Thessaloniki is ...

EBay has apologised and removed from its listings about 30 items of Holocaust memorabilia after a British newspaper reported that items including a striped concentration camp uniform were on sale. ...

The US diplomat was in Cairo for a few hours on the first leg of a regional tour that will take him to other Middle Eastern countries, including Israel and ...

The 13th Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival, which runs from October 25 to November 2, comes to a wrap today with a closing party to be held in Frankfurt’s Zoo Palais.   ...