Tag: news from turkey

There are a number of people who abandoned their former religion and accepted Islam. These people belong to various races, countries, nationalities, colours and professional groups. Many of these people ...

“And we suspend a basket or a bucket from the chimney with sweetmeats for the children to pick up!” The elderly man in a remote Taurus mountain village was telling ...

Veteran singer Adnan Şenses passed away Dec. 25 at age 78, doctors at the Istanbul hospital where he was receiving treatment said. Şenses had been fighting cancer for several years. ...

Ozdil, also known as the Imam, talks to a diplomat from the US Embassy in Ankara, David Johnson, with a phone registered to Osman Varol. Sabah, which printed the first ...

The European Union issues a stark warning to PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to cease interfering in the judicial process following the latter’s vitriol toward the judiciary over a graft probe. ...

The police in Xinjiang kills 8 people, who attacked the police station in the region, officals claimed. The police in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region killed eight people who attacked the police ...

"National income would not have increased from $236 billion to $800 billlion if there was corrupiton," Erdogan says. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his view on Sunday that anti-graft operation ...

CEOs in Turkey are worried about the repercussions of the ongoing graft investigation on the economy in 2014, a local magazine’s survey has shown. More than 71 percent of 132 ...

Earthquake measuring 6.0 hits the coastal province of Antalya in Turkey's south, says emergency agency. An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, which occured in east basin of Mediterranean ...

Three lawmakers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) were sent to the party’s joint disciplinary committee with a request for their definitive expulsion after publically expressing criticism over ...