The tax on raki, brought in when Erdogan's AKP came to power in 2002, has jumped by more than 2,500% since 2010, a ...

Twenty-three people who drank tainted alcohol in Istanbul have died in the past 48 hours and more than 30 others were in ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

Alcohol tainted with methanol is thought to be the cause, with such alcohol poisonings being common in Turkey, as private production of counterfeit alcohol has exploded amid the country's struggling ...

Political observers and community leaders are watching closely to see if instruction will be followed. Read more at ...

Did you know the Eastern Mediterranean could hold over 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, potentially worth hundreds of billions of d ...

The remarkable downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has liberated millions from his tyranny, but Syrian Christians ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed Thursday in talks in Rome with European counterparts on the need to encourage ...

Peter Frankopan on a book that argues that Sunni Islam has reversed the declining influence of religion on Turkish society ...

Having already visited several sites associated with Jewish history in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, South ...

Russia’s abandonment of the Assad regime to marshal more resources for the fight against Ukraine vividly illustrates that Putin is ready to sacrifice everything for total victory in the war. Although ...

DAP and MCA leaders have lambasted PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang over his remarks that “secularism was a bigger sin than defamation and murder” in a commentary yesterday. DAP central ...