As Turkish citizens vote in local elections this Sunday, the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will try to win back cities it lost in 2019. In the last local elections held five years ago, a united opposition won the ‘municipalities
Fenerbahce are reportedly considering quitting the Turkish SuperLig in protest over their perceived poor treatment by the country’s authorities. If the club goes through with their threat, they will face forfeiting all their league matches and will be relegated to the second
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey carried out a new round of airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq on Tuesday, Turkey’s defense ministry said, hours after a Turkish soldier was killed and four others were wounded in an attack in the region.
Former Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi attempted a wild spinning kick on a fan during a pitch invasion in Turkey. Batshuayi’s Fenerbahce team-mates were celebrating a crucial win over rivals Trabzonspor when opposition supporters stormed onto the pitch. Batshuayi struck an 87th-minute winner
Turkish police conducted raids in Istanbul and detained seven people suspected of selling information to Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced the arrests on social media, saying that the suspects were apprehended for collecting data. The arrests were part
Authorities detained four people in connection with the massive landslide at a gold mine in eastern Turkey. The landslide occurred at Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic, leaving nine workers missing. Over 800 search and rescue personnel, including
A landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, apparently trapping at least nine workers underground, officials said. The landslide at the Copler mine happened at 2:30 p.m. near the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province. Footage seemingly
Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden returned to Earth on Friday, ending a private three-week mission to the International Space Station. The trio were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the
ISTANBUL (AP) — Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media published an image of
Two masked assailants, allegedly members of the Islamic State group, attacked a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during Sunday mass, killing one person. The weapons used in the attack remain unspecified, and the victim has only been identified as a 52-year-old with