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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...

Deathtrap cable cars spook Turkey’s intrepid tea farmers

You need to be part daredevil to live in the spectacularly steep hills overlooking the Black Sea where Turkey grows its tea. To get to...

Turkish national warns of gaps in border security after illegally crossing into the US

A Turkish national who recently entered the United States illegally across the southern border said Americans should be “concerned" about lax security and the...

Fear brews in Turkey’s landslide-plagued tea hills

Every time it rains heavily in Turkey's spectacular Black Sea tea growing region -- where it rains a lot -- Zikrullah Kömürcü starts to...

İstanbul’s century-old streetcar gets a makeover

İstanbul's emblematic red and white trams, built over 100 years ago and loved by both locals and tourists, are about to give way to...

Pro-Turkey Syria mercenaries head to Niger to earn cash

Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year, joining Syrian mercenaries sent to the West African nation...

Turkey’s ‘mad honey’ aphrodisiac that can knock you flat

Its fans swear it can cure heart palpitations, dodgy stomachs and even impotence. Yet every year hundreds of people end up in the hospital...

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