Turkey

Over 100 ancient Greek theaters have been unearthed in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, and Turkey to date

An animal lover in Turkey, inspired by her paralyzed father, has built a train out of plastic barrels to give daily rides to the disabled dogs at a shelter outside the country's capital Ankara.

The local elections in Turkey - which did not go very well at all for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - provided a momentary escape from the grim domestic quagmire Greece is sinking into, with no end yet in sight of the present crisis.

A recently unveiled Europol report has shown the pervasive influence of criminal networks in the European Union, particularly implicating Bulgarians, Romanians, Serbs, and Ukrainians in the most perilous operations related to human trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation.

Defying relevant UN resolutions and the decades-old agreed premise for a solution to Cyprus' division, the representative of the Turkish Ministry of Defense, Zeki Ozturk, insisted on a two-state solution on Thursday. 

The Istanbul Film Festival is ready for its 43rd edition between April 17 and 28, bringing together acclaimed and award-winning films from the Türkiye and world cinema, as well as special screenings, stars and master filmmakers. Festival tickets are on sale as of today. 

A recent report by the Turkish State Meteorological Service has revealed a significant decrease in the duration of snow cover in Türkiye over the past five decades, sparking concerns among experts.

Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Brussels, on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting.

University of Cambridge lecturer Dr Ioanna Sitaridou (right) is pictured with Romeyka speakers from Turkey's Black Sea city of Trabzon. Sitaridou has spent 16 years documenting this endangered variety of Greek still used by an estimated 4,000-8,000 speakers, mostly elderly Muslim women, in northeast Turkey.

The brother of an opposition candidate was killed and four other people injured in clashes between opponents and supporters of the newly elected ruling-party mayor of a city district in a predominantly Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey.