Sivas

A "hobbit village" has been inaugurated in the eastern Turkish city of Sivas. Click through for the story in photos...

The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack staged by radical Islamists on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel, was commemorated on its 24th anniversary on July 2 in the Central Anatolian province of Sivas.

Three decades ago, in the wake of 1980 military coup, İsmail Yıldırım left Turkey to go to Paris, via Lebanon. He also helped his friend and prison-mate Yılmaz Güney, the award-winning Turkish director and actor, to escape. Despite Yıldırım's flight, however, his mind and his paintings remained firmly on Turkey and Turkish issues.

The Justice and Development Party's (AKP) landslide victory on Nov. 1 has resulted in mixed reactions among those who are vehemently opposed to this party. The most obvious one is to blame the people who voted for the AKP. 

Turkey has witnessed yet another huge wave of mass purges in the judiciary, with the government replacing almost 1,000 judges and prosecutors, raising more and more question marks over the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) motives in the latest restructuring of the country's top judicial body.

A report drafted by a civil rights organization has drawn a picture of the plight of transgender individuals in Turkey, finding that half of all transgender women sex workers in the country have been subjected to physical violence from police. It also states that the murder of transgender individuals in Turkey amounts to 40 percent of the total number of such killings in all of Europe.

He was born in Sivas, graduated from Kuleli Military High School in 1978 and from the Electric-Electronics Department of the Air Force Academy in 1982

Turkey’s sprawling high-speed railway network will also boost train station construction across the country, as a total of 21 new stations are planned at routes through which trains pass.

Back in the day, airports were something else. They were cozier, friendlier and easier to navigate, but in today’s Turkey, they just keep getting bigger and more difficult At the moment, there is a big boom going on in Turkey.