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Hungry times for İstanbul’s street food sellers

The enticing smell of grilled corn and chestnuts wafted from Hakan Deniz's red and gold food cart near a mosque in İstanbul's old city....

Turkey’s top Kurdish football club resists hatred

The slurs shouted by the ultras of a football club in northwest Turkey at their Kurdish rivals is just one way that the decades-old...

Modesty the aim for Turkey’s Olympic shooting sensation

Yusuf Dikeç may have an Olympic medal and a legion of adoring online fans, but the Turkish pistol sharpshooter is aiming to keep his...

Jailed Kurdish leader’s correspondence with prominent writer produces Turkish bestseller

A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their correspondence to write one of Turkey's...

Dolphin cruises help İstanbul enjoy its Bosporus bottlenoses

As the first dolphin fin surfaced from the Bosporus, a ripple of excitement went round passengers on a free boat ride to see one...

Ancient secrets unearthed in vast Turkish cave city

Through a basement door in southeastern Turkey lies a sprawling underground city -- perhaps the country's largest -- which one historian believes dates back...

Moonlit scramble across the sand for Turkey’s booming baby turtle population

The baby loggerhead sea turtles emerged from their eggshells and began their first challenge in life: a wobbly dash across the sand to the...

Hermes v Hermes: Turkish bookshop marks win in copyright fight

A bookseller in Turkey notched a victory over a French luxury house in a copyright battle to be able to call itself Hermes, Agence...

Grease, sweat and tears for Turkey’s Ottoman oil wrestlers

Their torsos slick with oil and sweat, the fighters grapple and tussle for gold and glory, competing in a venerable Turkish sport dating back...

Turkish volunteer fights to save fire-scarred sheep

Lying on her back, the sheep struggled as the man approached to bandage her udders, which had been burned in a fire last month...

Sinkholes spread fear in Turkey’s parched breadbasket

Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Şık drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at any...

[INTERVIEW] ‘Israel’s actions in Gaza qualify as genocide’

Bünyamin Tekin In an exclusive interview, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), spoke with Turkish Minute about the...

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