• Turkey detains journalists as protests grow over the jailing of key Erdogan rival

    Turkey detains journalists as protests grow over the jailing of key Erdogan rival

    Mar 24, 2025 01:45 PM EST

    Hundreds of thousands of people have come out for the largely peaceful protests across Turkey in support of the mayor. There has been some violence, with police deploying water cannons, tear gas and pepper spray and firing plastic pellets at protesters in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Some protesters hurled stones ...

  • Kurdish PKK insurgents declare ceasefire in 40-year conflict with Turkey

    Kurdish PKK insurgents declare ceasefire in 40-year conflict with Turkey

    Mar 01, 2025 11:53 PM EST

    ... does not apply to his group in Syria.The Turkish government, however, says all Kurdish groups it claims are tied to the PKK — whether in Turkey, Syria or Iraq — must disband. In recent years, the PKK has been limited to isolated attacks inside Turkey as the Turkish military, backed by ...

  • Imprisoned Kurdish leader urges his PKK militant group to disarm to make peace with Turkey

    Imprisoned Kurdish leader urges his PKK militant group to disarm to make peace with Turkey

    Feb 27, 2025 04:01 PM EST

    ... s statement as a "historic and powerful word." "Its timing was appropriate and it will have a positive impact in northeastern Syria, Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey as well," said Zebari, a senior official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which has maintained good relations with Turkey and has been at odds ...

  • Hotel fire at ski resort in Turkey leaves at least 66 dead and 51 injured

    Hotel fire at ski resort in Turkey leaves at least 66 dead and 51 injured

    Jan 21, 2025 04:56 PM EST

    ... evacuated as a precaution and guests were placed in hotels around Bolu. Meanwhile, a gas explosion at a hotel at another ski resort in central Turkey injured four people. The explosion took place at the Yildiz Mountain Winter Sports Center in Sivas province. Two skiers and their instructor were slightly ...

  • WATCH: Alaskan pilot airdrops Thanksgiving turkeys to off-grid residents

    WATCH: Alaskan pilot airdrops Thanksgiving turkeys to off-grid residents

    Nov 28, 2024 08:05 PM EST

    ... they don’t see it fall, they’re not going to know where to look,” she said. It can be especially difficult to find the turkey if there’s deep snow. A turkey was once missing for five days before it was found, but the only casualty so far has ...

  • Biden grants final pardons to turkeys at the White House

    Biden grants final pardons to turkeys at the White House

    Nov 25, 2024 11:25 PM EST

    ... That's where they will live out their days as agricultural ambassadors for Minnesota's Agricultural Interpretive Center, says John Zimmerman, chairman of the National Turkey Federation, who talked to us with his son, Grant. John Zimmerman, Chairman, National Turkey Federation:  They have a very nice campus and some facilities ...

  • WATCH : Biden grants pardons to two turkeys in annual White House tradition

    WATCH : Biden grants pardons to two turkeys in annual White House tradition

    Nov 25, 2024 04:31 PM EST

    Peach and Blossom came from the farm of John Zimmerman, near the southern Minnesota city of Northfield. Zimmerman, who has raised about 4 million turkeys, is president of the National Turkey Federation, the group that has gifted U.S. presidents Thanksgiving turkeys since the Truman administration after World War II ...

  • Turkey strikes Kurdish militant targets again after deadly attack on military company

    Turkey strikes Kurdish militant targets again after deadly attack on military company

    Oct 24, 2024 03:14 PM EST

    ... and assembles civilian and military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and other defense industry and space systems. Its defense systems have been credited as key to Turkey gaining an upper hand in its fight against Kurdish militants. The attack occurred a day after the leader of Turkey’s far-right nationalist ...

  • American activist killed by Israeli gunfire is buried in Turkey as Israel continues strikes on Gaza

    American activist killed by Israeli gunfire is buried in Turkey as Israel continues strikes on Gaza

    Sep 14, 2024 06:38 PM EST

    Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old woman from Seattle, was shot dead Sept. 6 by an Israeli soldier during a demonstration against Israeli West Bank settlements, according to an Israeli protester who witnessed the shooting.

  • Turkey applies to join China and Russia in BRICS economic bloc, Kremlin says

    Turkey applies to join China and Russia in BRICS economic bloc, Kremlin says

    Sep 04, 2024 05:27 PM EST

    MOSCOW (AP) — NATO member Turkey has applied for membership in the BRICS bloc of developing economies, a senior Kremlin official said Wednesday, as Russia and China seek to counter the West's global influence. Yuri Ushakov, President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs aide, told reporters that Turkey has submitted an ...