Tag: news from turkey

The cinema sector in Turkey, which has gone from strength to strength in recent years, recorded the highest number of tickets sales in the last three decades in 2013, according ...

The majority of Israelis and Palestinians support the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel but remain suspicious of the other side, according to a poll released on Jan. 1. The survey ...

Headaches for many Turkish citizens waking up after a night of New Year’s revelry were compounded on Jan. 1 by the realization that daily goods such as fuel, cars, cigarettes, ...

The authorities arrested one student from the university's education faculty who had been accused of rioting as soon as he stepped out of the exam room, students said. Pro-democracy students ...

Gulen movement set up secret police cells in separate offices, in parallel to the real ones, according to investigations started after the recent appointments within the Turkish National Police Department. ...

Over the weekend, there was some scary news for the world's biggest social network. Facebook, the story went, was "dead and buried", teenagers were turning away "in their droves", put ...

The family of German motor-racing champion Michael Schumacher is at his bedside as he fights for life following a skiing accident in the French Alps. Schumacher's manager, Sabine Kehm, said ...

The billionaire Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani has been arrested, state media report. In September, Iran's parliament began investigating his business dealings after he was accused of withholding $1.9bn (£1.2bn) of ...

Two deputies who recently held meetings with the outlawed Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) leaders in Northern Iraq are expected to meet Turkey’s newly appointed Interior and Justice Ministers on Jan. ...

The two countries will sign a cooperation protocol to research Ottoman archives. Serbia and Turkey will sign a cooperation protocol next year to be able to make researches on Ottoman ...