Turkey

Panicked tourists in Turkey hurried to the seashore to wait for rescue boats after being told to evacuate some hotels in the Aegean resort town of Bodrum due to the dangers posed by nearby wildfires

The U.S. women’s volleyball team beat Turkey in a fifth-set tiebreaker on Thursday.

Team USA women’s volleyball defeated China 2-0 on Monday, and now looks to their match against Turkey on Thursday.

U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that about 650 U.S. troops are expected to be kept in Afghanistan to provide security for the American diplomatic presence after the Pentagon completes its military withdrawal, which is set to be largely done in the next two weeks

In December, the Trump administration slapped sanctions on Turkey for buying the S-400 missile system, a move typically not seen among NATO allies.

President Joe Biden and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have known each other for years, but their meeting Monday will be their first as heads of state

A squirrel rescued by a jeweler guards the cash register in his store in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

The battered currency fell as low as 8.88 to the dollar, a 4% drop, later recouping some losses to trade at around 8.59 as markets closed in Istanbul.  Investors have expressed concerned about what they see as the Turkish central bank’s lack of independence from Erdogan, who has said that interest rates are “the devil.” With inflation having been stuck…

“Investors have grown accustomed to headlines of central bank governors fired in the night,” one analyst told CNBC.

Biden should rethink “do-no-harm” policy as Middle East countries work through differences

Residents fear the economic impact of the lockdown on a population already battered by high inflation, rising unemployment and a dramatically weakened currency.

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U_S_ ambassador in Ankara to protest the U_S_ decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as “genocide.”

Armenian Americans celebrated the news Saturday that President Joe Biden formally declared as genocide the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s

Investors worry the dovish signal from Turkey’s central bank risks more volatility for the country’s currency.

A stray cat was filmed walking into a veterinary clinic in Turkey with her ill kittens in tow.

Cellphone footage shows the moment a building demolition in Izmir, Turkey, went horribly wrong, crashing into the apartment building next door.

Turkey’s inflation is at 15%, youth unemployment is at 25% and the dollar is up more than 10% on the lira since the central bank chief’s firing. 

Calling Saudi Arabia a “great ally,” President Donald Trump declined to stand behind the CIA’s claim that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A paws-itively devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment

A dog in Turkey followed an ambulance which was taking his owner to the hospital and sat outside for days waiting for his owner to be released.