President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top aide Mehmet Uçum described the new executive presidential system as “a one-man government in political terms,” which paves way for an efficient execution by “collective and collaborative teamwork.”
Turkey’s newly appointed Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and top Turkish soldiers visited the Dağbaşı military base in the Çukurcu district of the southeastern province of Hakkari bordering Iraq on July 19.
Turkish channel operator Oflaz Media Group’s owner Fatih Oflaz has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail for sexually abusing his daughter by a recent court order.
A man who attacked and severely injured a doctor at a hospital in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa has prompted a huge public outcry.
An Istanbul court on July 18 ruled for the continuation of the detention of 44 suspects in a case of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul’s Ortaköy district in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2017 that killed 39 people.
A sunken Russian warship believed to contain $130 billion in gold bullion and coins has been found off the coast of a South Korean island — 113 years after it was scuttled during the Russo-Japanese War, several reports said.
A lawmaker of Turkey’s main opposition party, Aytuğ Atıcı, had his long beard shaved off as he had promised after the two-year-long state of emergency was lifted on July 19.
The stunning changes in color in Turkey's Salt Lake are attracting visitors both human and feathered to Central Anatolia. Click through for the story in photos...
Thousands of people flocked to the July 15 Martyrs Bridge in Istanbul to mark the second anniversary of the defeated coup attempt in 2016. Click through for the story in photos...
