It would take Russian forces 60 hours to reach all three Baltic capitals. In less than three days, NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and...

On February 6, 2023, a deadly series of earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria, killing at least 50,000 people and...

Why would a country choose to change its name? Historically, name changes have often followed regime changes, especially after...

In the city of Baku, in the small Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan, three futuristic glass towers dominate the skyline. At night, they are...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the city of Baghouz, ISIS’ last stronghold in Syria, in March. While formally the SDF still...

Over the past five years, state-owned Turkish Airlines has expanded to connect 40 destinations in Sub-Saharan Africa to Istanbul, with...

Throughout his prominence in Turkish politics, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, now the nation’s president, has raised eyebrows more than a few...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seems to have a knack for the unprecedented, a desire to chart his own path and challenge...

This July, a sea of red flags emboldened with crescent moons swept over a reeling nation. Just two weeks after Turkey’s failed coup...

In a country accustomed to tumult, a single dam is causing ripples of turbulence. Over 60 years in the making, Turkey’s Ilisu Dam’s...

On the eve of the Holocaust, Hitler addressed a gathering of Wehrmacht commanders at his home in Obersalzberg, just a week before the...

Stephen Kinzer is a veteran New York Times correspondent, author, and academic. He has filed stories from over 50 countries, and served...

In the beginning of September, the Turkish town of Cizre found itself in the midst of an armed conflict between Turkey and the Kurdistan...

In 2008, some 85 million people in the Arab world tuned in to watch the final episode of the breakthrough Turkish television show Gümüş....

On August 29 and 30, to commemorate a moment of national freedom, an open-air auditorium in Turkey’s capital hosted a magical encounter...

For a generation that has been disappointed one too many times by the promise of participatory democracy to anticipate any real change,...

April 24 is a significant and painful date for the Armenian people. On that night, one century ago, the Ottoman government arrested more...

A Greek Cypriot dairy farmer protests the government’s ruling on new standards for halloumi cheese in May, 2012. Photo by Cyprus Mail....

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not endeared himself to his more liberal, reform-minded constituents. Last summer,...

If voting booths are any indication, Turks are largely unfazed by their leader’s growing authoritarian streak. Despite months of...