Sometimes people underestimate the importance of beaks, bills, and rostrums in identifying species. Yet, a beak can make all ...

Turkey's government is reaching out to the Kurdish population at home while backing militias fighting Kurds in Syria. What is behind Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach? "In future, we will take ...

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party met Ocalan in late December and has since held talks with other parties including President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party (AKP), to discuss Ocalan's proposal ...

(L-R) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Benjamin Netanyahu seen over flags of Turkey and Israel, respectively (illustrative) (photo credit: FLASH90/CANVA, REUTERS, SHUTTERSTOCK) The tumultuous ...

A rebellion by groups close to Turkey ousted Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad last month. Since then, Turkey-backed Syrian forces have occasionally clashed in the north with U.S-backed Kurdish ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s, the Blue ...

Turkey under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a key backer of the Syrian opposition since the revolution began in Syria in 2011. On 8 December last year, after 13 years of ...

Turkey-Brokered Deal Spurs Thaw in Somalia, Ethiopia Relations Somalia opens door to Ethiopia joining counterinsurgency force Ethiopian defense minister arrives in Mogadishu for talks ...

He became vice-president following the May 2023 general election, which Erdoğan won despite the most vigorous attempt by Turkey’s opposition to unseat him in years. Şimşek is widely ...

In the culmination of its neo-Ottoman expansion strategy across part of its former empire, Turkey has quickly staked its claim in Syria. An unprecedented deployment of spies, diplomats, security ...

Turkey offered to help rebuild the Syrian military shattered by the fall of the long-ruling Assad regime and Israeli airstrikes, potentially filling a void left by Russia's diminishing forces ...