Tag: Turkey

With long braids and large grins, Luna and Violetta, ages 6 and 5, respectively, greeted me at their home in Antakya city in southern Turkey in late December 2022. They ...

The decision by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) reduces the possibility of a damaging split of the anti-Erdogan vote, boosting the chances of the opposition alliance’s joint candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. ...

Kilicdaroglu, 74, head of the country’s second-biggest party, aims to emerge from Erdogan‘s shadow and oust the president after a two-decade reign that has transformed the NATO member country and ...

ISTANBUL—Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has provided a lifeline of people and money for Turkey—and received plenty of benefits in return. Over the past year, ...

An emotional video shows a “joyful” reunion between a survivor of one of the powerful earthquakes that hit Turkey last month and the pet cat that saved her life. Rumeysa ...

Another strong earthquake hit Turkey Saturday morning, again rocking the region struggling to recover from a catastrophic quake two weeks ago. The 5.2 magnitude earthquake hammered central Turkey, just days ...

Turkey has begun work to rebuild homes following this month’s devastating earthquakes, a government official said on Friday, as the combined death toll in Turkey and Syria surpassed 50,000. More ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he would meet with China’s Xi Jinping — after Beijing called for peace talks to end the war — though he categorically refused ...

In 1999, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Marmara, Turkey, causing close to 18,000 deaths and leaving tens of thousands more people injured, displaced, or sorting through the rubble of ...

The devastating earthquake on Feb. 6 that ravaged south and central Turkey and northwestern Syria, resulting in the loss of more than 46,000 lives, revealed many fault lines beyond those ...