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Turkey’s winning women ignite culture wars

When Merve Dizdar won Turkey's first best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the women's volleyball team lifted the European trophy this...

‘Bad days await’: İstanbul dams run low in summer heat

The bank of screens in İsmail Aydın's İstanbul water management system control room flashes a worrying number: 29.7 percent. That is the capacity level to...

‘Animals are thirsty’: Dust and bones on Turkey’s shrinking lake

Shepherd İbrahim Koç recalls his youth with fondness as he grazes cattle on a barren field that was once lush with vegetation on the...

‘Silk of peace’ weaves new bonds in post-quake Turkey

Nearly all the workers lost their houses, the accountant and vet disappeared along with their families, but after the deadly earthquakes that devastated Turkey's...

Turkey seeks severed head of ancient statue from Danish museum

The bronze head of Emperor Septimius Severus on display at a Copenhagen museum has become a bone of contention between the Danish museum and...

After ISIL and Turkish bombs, refugee sisters sing of Kurdish sorrow

When the Syrian Kurdish sisters Perwin and Norshean Salih sing about loss, it comes from the heart. Aged in their early 20s, they have twice...

Turkish expats in Germany hope for citizenship law overhaul

Şener Sargut is from Turkey but has lived in Germany for over six decades, is married to a German woman and speaks the local...

Migrants among 6 killed in car crash near Greece-Turkey border

Five migrants and a Greek motorist were killed in a collision on a highway near the border between Greece and Turkey on Saturday, police...

Bittersweet Easter for Turkish city’s dwindling Armenian community

The aroma of çörek, a spiced bun the Armenian community makes for Easter, is once again wafting through the streets of Diyarbakır in southeast...

Muharrem İnce’s presidential bid: A lifeline for Erdoğan in disguise?

Bünyamin Tekin In Turkey's ever-turbulent political scene, a familiar face has recently announced his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, sparking heated debate and speculation. Muharrem...

Fabled Antakya fears losing its ‘soul’ in Turkey’s earthquake ruins

As they left Antakya, Turkey's earthquake-shattered home of ancient civilizations, its anguished residents scribbled farewell messages on the ruins: "We'll come back" and "Don't...

Turkey earthquake cuts village in two

The small, grey house in southern Turkey that once looked out onto the road might appear untouched by last week's huge earthquake, but it...

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