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Living like sultans: İstanbul’s pampered street cats

Kanyon is getting fat: Since someone stole his basket, this white cat with grey markings who lives at an İstanbul shopping center has been...

‘We hold onto one another and keep fighting,’ says wife of jailed İstanbul mayor

Turkish democracy has suffered serious damage since the jailing of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, his wife said, describing the period as painful for their...

In Turkey, ancient carved faces offer new clues about Neolithic society

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago, when the...

‘We chose it’: PKK fighters describe life in Iraq’s mountains

A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a nearby hidden...

Turkey’s Christians battle inequality, exclusion

Despite some progress in restoring their rights, Christians in Turkey are still struggling against inequality and a sense of exclusion as Pope Leo XIV...

From TV screens to diplomacy, Bangladesh–Turkey ties deepen

In a recording studio in Dhaka, voiceover artist Rubaiya Matin Gity dubs the latest Turkish soap opera to become a megahit in Bangladesh --...

Kanal İstanbul sparks fear and uncertainty in nearby villages

In the village of Sazlıbosna, along the planned route of the vast Kanal İstanbul project, 68-year-old Yaşar Demirkaya fidgets with worn prayer beads as...

Anger grows over fate of İstanbul’s historic Haydarpaşa train station

When Şenay Kartal worked at İstanbul’s Haydarpaşa station, her days were filled with the rumble of trains and the bustle of passengers. But gone are...

Tropicalization of Mediterranean speeds up amid record 32C waters

When Murat Draman went scuba diving off the coast of the southern Turkish province of Antalya and saw the temperature in the depths was...

Water shortages threaten Turkey’s tourist coast

Ali Alyanak and his neighbors in Turkey's tourist hub of İzmir now have to draw water from a shrinking aquifer 170 meters underground even...

Annual carpet drying turns Turkish resort into a sea of color

Thousands of carpets and kilim rugs spread out in the sun form a festive and kaleidoscopic patchwork on the outskirts of Antalya, a coastal...

French artist adds color to Ankara’s cracked pavements

Walking through Ankara's streets, occasional flashes of color light up the pavement where French artist Ememem has painstakingly patched up the potholes and cracks...

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