The international soccer organization FIFA confirmed on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into Turkish celebrity chef Nusret Gökçe, popularly known as “Salt Bae.”
A growing number of Syrian Kurds are going to Europe on a winding course that includes Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and a boat to Spain.
Thousands of protesters marched across Turkey this week after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a political rising star and major rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and banned from participating in politics.
Both Russian and Ukrainian officials on Friday confirmed a massive Russian missile attack against infrastructure targets across Ukraine.
Turkey, pork, and other Christmas day staples have all seen price spikes of around 20 per cent or more amid Britain’s inflation crisis.
“Hatred of the West” largely inspired rioting Moroccans who flipped cars and set fire to property in Brussels after a World Cup game last Sunday, an expert has claimed.
A five-year-old migrant girl reported to have died trying to cross from Turkey into Greece may never have existed in the first place, an investigation has claimed.
Gen. Mazloum Abdi – top military commander for the Kurdish-led, U.S.-allied Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) – said on Wednesday his alliance must suspend operations against the resurgent Islamic State in order to prepare for a potentially massive Turkish invasion that could put hundreds of American troops in Syria at risk.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey’s airstrikes against Kurdish militia in Syria would soon be augmented by a major ground invasion. Meanwhile, Iran is launching missiles against Kurds living in the mountains of Iraq and using ground forces to crush protests in Iranian Kurdistan.
The deputy chairman of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party says the U.S. is working to prolong the Ukraine war for “its own benefit”.
Pope Francis has reached out to the victims of a terrorist attack that killed six people in Istanbul Sunday, wounding 80 more.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday claimed production of China’s CH drones is “running at maximum capacity thanks to heavy market demand” – heavy enough to warrant a new state-of-the-art production line that will become fully operational next year.
Russia announced it would no longer comply with the United Nations-negotiated pact to allow the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.
Turkey prices are set to gobble up a bigger part of family budgets this year as farmers grapple with inflation, drought, and avian flu, which could drive prices higher as Thanksgiving approaches.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in remarks on Monday that his country would “not remain indifferent” if shown proof that Russia was using its homemade drones to bomb Ukraine, suggesting that Moscow did not discuss using the drones in the Ukrainian war with Iran and that Tehran disapproved.
The court said the defendants were influenced “by Christian fundamentalism” and by the predictions of a Turkish fortune-teller.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to make Turkey a natural gas hub for Russian energy for Europe.
The tomb of St. Nicholas, who inspired the Christmas legend of Santa Claus, was recently discovered underneath a church in Turkey.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become something of a proxy battlefield for drones from Turkey and Iran. Ukrainian defense forces have made spectacular use of Turkey’s Bayraktar drones, which have become one of the hottest military products in the world, while Iran is (not very) secretly believed to be supplying Russia with its Mohajer and Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Cologne’s massive central mosque broadcast the Islamic call to prayer for the first time ever this week following a German court ruling granting permission to do so.
A Syrian Kurdish security official said on Monday that a drone strike launched by the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition killed an ISIS militant while he was riding a motorcycle through the village of Hamam al-Turkman, which is currently controlled by Syrian militia forces aligned with Turkey.
A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists four years ago.
45-year-old musician Onur Sener, a 2013 contestant on Turkey’s version of the TV talent show The Voice, was killed on Sunday night by three patrons of a bar in Ankara because he did not know the words to a song they requested.
Consumers will see record high prices when it comes to holiday turkey due to the bird flu and inflation in President Joe Biden’s (D) America.
The coast guard said 15 bodies had been recovered near the eastern island of Lesbos after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s address to the 77th U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday was largely dedicated to his contention that nearly all problems can be solved through “dialogue,” and Turkey is indispensable to every dialogue in the Middle East and Asia.
Cyprus has assisted in rescue of a small wooden boat crammed with more than 300 migrants that was floating west of the island nation.
Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan decided to soften his public image on Saturday by taking a walk through Central Park in New York City, which he is visiting to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias says he is concerned over his country’s relations with neighbouring Turkey, as Ankara has repeatedly threatened its supposed NATO ally in recent weeks.
Activists and Syrian migrants in Turkey are making attempts to form a massive caravan of illegals to cross into the EU illegally.
The government of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, has condemned threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey has also claimed Kurdish terrorists have been training in Greece. President Erdogan made
The leader of the Swedish Islamic Nyans Party has been convicted of minor assault by a Turkish court over a violent incident directed at a relative that took place in 2009.
Ukraine has relied heavily on Turkish-made Bayraktar drones to fight the Russian invasion.
Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay and Defence Minister Hulusi Akar launched a barrage of threats toward NATO ally Greece this week, as tensions between the two countries remain high.
The Greek government has decided to extend the border wall with Turkey so that the fence will cover the entire length of the land frontier with the hostile Islamist-led country.
Two Bulgarian police officers were killed early Thursday as they tried to stop a bus containing migrants who had entered the country illegally, a senior interior ministry official said.
Turkey doubled its Russian oil imports year-on-year over a period spanning January to August 2022, Reuters reported on Monday citing new data from the financial analyst platform Refinitiv Eikon.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged governments and private sectors worldwide to allow Russian food and fertilizer “unimpeded access” to the global market as they are “not subject to sanctions” imposed on Moscow by the U.S. government and its allies in response to Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.
Cyprus has signed paperwork towards the purchase of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in a bid to counter the threat of Turkish drones, a Greek newspaper reported on Friday.
Inflation figures in the U.S. of 8.5 per cent, the United Kingdom of 10.1 per cent and the 19-country euro area of 8.9 per cent come nowhere close to Turkey’s eye-popping rate of nearly 80 per cent, with skyrocketing food, housing and energy prices hitting people hard.
