Doner kebab

Swindlers in Istanbul have allegedly defrauded a 66-year-old man of 100,000 Turkish Liras ($28,240) by telling him they were involved in the sale of land on the city's Esenyurt Square, the sole rights of which in fact belong to the district municipality. 

In a bid to banish stereotypes of late-night greasy fast food, Turkish chefs are trying to burnish their image by showcasing the culinary riches the country has to offer. 

Turkey's authentic döner kebap has evolved from being cheap fast-food, mostly preferred by Europe's migrant communities, into a "food concept" that has dominated the world in an upward trend, French food geographer Pierre Raffard has said. 

Turkey's authentic döner kebap has evolved from being cheap fast-food, mostly preferred by Europe's migrant communities, into a "food concept" that has dominated the world in an upward trend, French food geographer Pierre Raffard has said. 

The year 2016 has been a year that we wish to forget in many ways, but I do try to look at the brighter side and remember fondly some of its memorable moments and morsels. This year most of the culinary highlights each month were strangely interwoven with other events or coincidences that happened later in the year.

A Sydney dessert bar has introduced a saccharin equivalent of the doner kebab, complete with a rotating white and milk chocolate rotisserie, which is shaved as it spins.

Dulwich Hill’s Tella Balls Dessert Bar, which is best known for their over-the-top doughnut-topped tella ball milkshakes, is calling their new creation the “tellabab”.

As one good friend from distant lands has reminded recently, Turkey these days looks like the man who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Once again, it's the never-ending struggle, the (Islamic) "dawa" - the fight for the advancement of Sunni Islamism. "Dawa" commands fighting the infidel at home and abroad, including in (non-Sunni) Muslim lands. 

A group of armed men reportedly opened fire and chanted anti-alcohol slogans at an annual rak? festival in the southern province of Adana on Dec. 12.

The group fired into the air with shotguns and threatened festivalgoers, who escaped in panic from the streets of the Kazanc?lar Bazaar of Adana's Yüre?ir district, where the festival was being celebrated.

A heart-warming story in Istanbul turned into a heart-breaking one for a business owner, when a local woman fed 35 Syrian refugee children before fleeing the restaurant without paying.

Readers of news website Radikal have selected Turkey’s top restaurants to eat doner kebab - a Turkish dish made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, normally lamb but sometimes beef or chicken. Here is the list