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Syrian Kurds fear thaw between Assad regime and Turkey

Syria's Kurds, bracing for a Turkish land offensive against their autonomous northern region, face an additional threat: being squeezed by warming ties between their...

‘What have they done?’ Flip side of Turkey’s dental boom

Briton Rida Azeem knew her dental trip to Turkey had gone badly wrong the second she took off her mask. "My husband said, 'What have...

Genies not genius: Turkey’s low-budget horror flicks boom

Kneeling before a chalk star outside his tumbledown house, an old man performs a ritual to rid himself of evil spirits -- which many...

Ailing 80-year-old inmate released from prison after 4 months

Makbule Özer, an ailing 80-year-old inmate in a high-security prison in Turkey’s eastern Van province, was released from prison on Wednesday,  the Stockholm Center...

One century on, political fights rage over Turkey’s stray dogs

Ubiquitous and iconic, İstanbul's street dogs have been swept up in a political storm involving President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and an app that helped...

Mystical water underworld of past empires reopens in İstanbul

Justinian the Great would have been proud. The Basilica Cistern he built for the capital of his Eastern Roman Empire in modern-day İstanbul has reopened...

‘Where will we go?’ Syrians fear threatened Turkish assault

Ghazwan al-Atman thought he had found refuge in Manbij after years of displacement, but he now fears his family will be uprooted once again...

Tiny houses: Turkish tourism thinks small in Covid-19 era

Gizem Baburhan stepped into a tiny house on wheels she rented in the Aegean vineyards and saw the future of Turkey's coronavirus-ravaged tourism industry. "This...

Exclusive: Turkey to test S-400 air defense system October 5-16, official correspondence reveals

Cevheri Güven According to a piece of official correspondence dated September 24 seen by Turkish Minute, Turkey will activate the S-400 missile defense system it...

‘Human tragedy’ unfolding in Turkish prisons, says jailed Kurdish leader

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), described the current situation in Turkey's prisons as a "human tragedy"...

Doctor recounts details of brutal torture of Turkish soldiers after 2016 coup

A medical doctor who was assigned to a large detention center in Ankara a few days after a coup attempt in July 2016 has...

European anti-torture committee reports allege abuse in Turkish detention facilities

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on Wednesday published reports on its...

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