Tag: Turkey

Ankara will play host to a musical commemoration tonight for the thousands of people who perished in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre with a specially composed oratorio that all features a ...

IHH sent first convoy of 33 trucks laden with 850 tons of flour to Syrian civilians. Trucks of the first aid convoy sent by the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation for Syrian ...

A historical-comedy TV series featuring “vicious” Anatolian Greek(Rum) characters during the Turkish Independence War (1918-1923) has irked Turkey’s Greek community, prompting the group to formally complain to Turkey’s media watchdog. “Ustura Kemal” (Razor ...

Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said today that they were issuing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) new credit to solve the terror problem in Turkey despite all ...

Street protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as shock waves from the Sunni-led insurgency in nearby Syria strain his country's fragile political ...

Since unrest began in Syria in the spring of 2011, reporting from the country has been difficult. Former contacts are now dead or can't be located, and the country lies ...

Ottoman book art was rooted in the traditions of the wider Islamic world, but evolved and diversified in Ottoman territories. Traditions were adapted to Ottoman taste and flourished under the ...

An 80,000-square-meter miniature park is to be established by the Central Anatolian province of Konya’s Meram Municipality and will feature models of 120 historical artifacts in Turkey and abroad. The ...

The BDP gets involved on all fronts in an effort to produce peace in Turkey as talks on the Kurdish issue begin with group head Abdullah Öcalan. A hectic diplomatic ...

Ankara has issued a strong attack on the European Union (EU) for what it calls a "bigoted" assessment of Turkey in its report on EU membership requirements published in October. ...