Source: The Guardian BY Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas. Surveys […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA File Photo Related Articles Turkey Archeologists hunt for St. Nicholas’s remains Minorities The saint who inspired Santa Claus remembered in his hometown Archaeologists […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Children play at the Öncüpınar camp for Syrian refugees next to the border crossing with Syria, near Kilis in southeastern Turkey, June 20, 2016. (AP Photo) […]
DAILY SABAH WITH DOGAN NEWS AGENCY ISTANBUL AA Photo A Van Cat named Kartopu (Snowball) won this year’s feline beauty contest held in Van, eastern Turkey. In the competition […]
By Simon Jäggi This content was published on September 29, 2017 A Swiss-based researcher is one of several from all over Europe who are concerned about the unpredictable future of research freedom in Turkey. (Keystone) The tense situation in Turkey is making it increasingly difficult to conduct research there. Foreign scientists working in […]
YUNUS PAKSOY @yunuspaksoy ANKARA Turkey’s development projects, soft power activities and growing economic operations in the Balkans, especially over the past 15 years, have sounded alarm bells in some European capitals as Turkish influence has led to one-sided verbal skirmishes from time to time. Ankara has sought ways to implement […]
By AFP – Sep 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A photographer takes photos as soldiers stand next to tanks bearing Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border on Tuesday (AFP photo) ISTANBUL — Turkey has reacted with unbridled fury to the independence referendum in Iraq’s […]
NYTimes By DAN BILEFSKYSEPT. 18, 2017 When high school students in Turkey arrive for the fall term, Charles Darwin will be conspicuously absent from biology classes. In elementary school religion classes, teachers will promote the nonviolent meaning of the word jihad — “to struggle” — as “love of homeland.” And, perhaps most significantly […]
Source: Associated Press By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY ISTANBUL (AP) — Students in Turkey are returning to school Monday where they will be taught evolution for the last time in their biology […]
By Simon Bradley This content was published on September 11, 2017 The three-tonne marble sarcophagus that dates from the second century AD is carved with detailed images of the 12 Labours […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL KRG leader Masoud Barzani attends a rally in support for the upcoming September 25th independence referendum in Zakho, Iraq September 14, 2017. (Reuters Photo) Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani vowed Friday to go ahead with the planned independence referendum on September 25 […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo In his address before heads of states and representatives from predominantly Muslim countries, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged Muslims around the world Sunday to unite […]
Columns Sinem Cengiz | Published — Friday 8 September 2017 Once again an EU country faces a critical election, and as usual Turkey, a candidate country for accession to the bloc, is being used as a tool in political campaigning. Germany, Europe’s most populous country, will hold a national election […]
From the construction boom to violence against women, refugees to the Gezi protests: a Berlin exhibition of modern Turkish photography captures the Bosphorus nation’s turmoil through journalistic yet artistic images. […]
Arakan army. Are you k idding? HAKKI ÖCAL @hakkiocal A Rohingya refugee woman with her child walks on a muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Sept. 7. The drama of the Arakan Muslims didn’t start now. Nor has what they call the Arakan insurgency happened in […]
For 200 days now, Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel has been held in jail in Turkey. But the madness won’t become routine just because time has passed. An Editorial By Barbara Hans derspiegel.com In some quarters, people tend to exaggerate when they speak of the importance of journalism. It is true, though, […]
DAILY SABAH WITH AFP BERLIN RTL Handout Photo via AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with […]
Source: Time BY JARED MALSIN/ISTANBUL | PHOTOGRAPHS BY EMIN OZMEN—MAGNUM FOR TIME Over the past few years, ISIS has repeatedly targeted tourist hot spots across Europe and the wider Mediterranean region. The slaughter […]
Source: The Daily Sabah Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on Bangladesh to open its doors to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. Speaking at […]
YAHYA BOSTAN@yahyabostan The allegation about the UAE’s involvement in hacking the QNA website seems to be leading to new tension in the region The Gulf crisis, which resulted in sanctions being imposed by several countries on Qatar, had started with the publication of a controversial story by the Qatar […]