Turkey

Deadly new fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Caucasus Mountains territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has deep roots and fallout beyond the region

Armenian Americans are demanding action as their homeland inches towards war with Azerbaijan. Days of fighting has taken a toll on soldiers and civilians. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News on Oct 5, 2020.

Leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia have brushed off the suggestion of peace talks, accusing each other of obstructing negotiations over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.

CCTV in Turkey captured the moment a car lost control and nearly hit two children on the sidewalk. Local media reports say three people were injured in the crash.

A man in Turkey captured video of a cow taking a walk on the rooftops of a village that was on lockdown because of coronavirus.

Turkish prosecutors have filed an indictment against 20 Saudi nationals over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

The city of Idlib is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name.

European Union foreign ministers are criticizing what they say is Turkey’s use of migrants for political ends

Thousands of migrants and refugees have massed at Turkey’s western frontier

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country’s borders with Europe are now open

The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke by phone Friday to try to defuse tensions that rose significantly in Syria after 33 Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike blamed on the Syrian government, and a new wave of refugees and migrants headed for the Greek land and sea border after Turkey said it would no longer hold them back….

Turkey on Friday raised the death toll from a Syrian government airstrike on its forces in northwestern Syria the day before to 33 Turkish troops killed. It was the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since it first intervened in Syria in 2016.

Turkey’s health minister says nine people were killed by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in the country’s east

A renewed push by Syrian government forces has prompted aid groups to raise the alarm about the “staggering exodus” of people from the country’s northwest, NBC News reports.

Passengers on the Turkish airliner that crash-landed and split into pieces say the plane’s rapid descent and forceful landing in Istanbul made them nervous but routine announcements from the flight staff reassured them

Three people are dead and at least 179 have been taken to hospitals after a Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in Istanbul.

Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the country’s east.

The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 29 on Saturday night as rescue crews searched for people who remained trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, officials said. Speaking at a televised news conference, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said earlier in the day that 18 people were killed in Elazig province, where Friday night’s…

A Turkish airline company whose jets were used to fly former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon said an employee falsified records and that Ghosn’s name did not appear on any documentation related to the flights.

Lebanon’s justice minister says Lebanon has received an international wanted notice from Interpol for Nissan’s ex-chair Carlos Ghosn. Albert Serhan tells The Associated Press in an interview that the Red Notice for the former automotive titan was received earlier Thursday by prosecutors. Interpol’s so-called Red Notices are requests to law enforcement agencies worldwide that they locate and provisionally arrest a...