Tag: Turkey

Serious doubts are being cast on Iran's claim that it successfully sent a monkey into space and back earlier this week.  Several websites -- including the "Telegraph" and "The Times" ...

Turkish premier rules out link between Syria, US embassy attack in Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out possibility that Friday's deadly suicide bombing at the US Embassy in Turkey was linked to ...

Turkey's extreme-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) has waged a violent campaign for more than three decades. Ankara says the DHKP-C has killed dozens of police officers and soldiers along ...

A suspected suicide bombing has occurred in front of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, causing at least two deaths, according to reports. Private broadcaster NTV said two security guards were ...

Despite no one wanting to see conflict in Asia, the ranks of doomsayers and worrywarts seem to grow by the day. The specter haunting the continent is that of China’s ...

An example of fitna is to cause distress and trouble to others, e.g. by pursuing a policy which will pave the way for a military takeover. It is stated in ...

Orhan Kemal’s masterpieces “72. Koğuş” (Cell 72) and “El Kızı” (Strange girl) will be published in Albania as part of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry’s TEDA project to introduce ...

The largest-ever hilye-i şerif exhibition presents 200 examples of classical and modern calligraphic art and 300 antique and unusual rosaries at Istanbul’s Lütfi Kırdar Congress and Exhibition Hall. The “Aşkı-Nebi ...

Ferdi Özbeğen, a renowned Turkish musician and pianist, has passed away following a respiratory failure on Monday at the age of 72. Özbeğen, who gave his last interview over the ...

Turkish society may seem patriarchal from the outside, but the role of motherhood remains revered. An-ne, or the Mother, is a veritable institution in Turkey. Turks are glued to their mobile ...