Turkey

Erdogan ascendant as Turkey heads for historic runoff

ISTANBUL – Turkey on Monday woke up to the prospect of its first presidential runoff vote after conservative President Recep…

4 weeks ago

Turkey braces for momentous runoff after election drama

ANKARA, Turkey | Turkey braced Monday for its first election runoff after a night of high drama showed President Recep…

4 weeks ago

To beat Erdogan, Turkey’s Gandhi may need lessons from Lincoln

AS TURKEY’S general election campaign enters its home stretch, a team of rivals is determined to dash Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s…

2 months ago

An Erdogan mea culpa must precede Turkey’s recovery

As the Sichuan quake of 2008 showed, an acknowledgment of past failures is essential to building back better  A DEVASTATING…

4 months ago

Turkey rescuers find three people 13 days after quake: TV

HATAY, Turkey – Turkish rescuers on Saturday pulled three people, including a child, alive from the rubble 13 days after…

4 months ago

Focus turns to survivors as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 35,000

KAHRAMANMARAS • Among the rubble, hundreds of thousands of homeless people face cold and hunger as authorities in Turkey and…

4 months ago

Miracle rescues a week after Turkey-Syria quake

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey • Rescuers pulled more survivors from the rubble a week after an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria leaving…

4 months ago

UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll tops 33,000

KAHRAMANMARAS • The United Nations (UN) decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria,…

4 months ago

Turkey-Syria quake deaths pass 28,000, millions in need of aid

KAHRAMANMARAS – Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after…

4 months ago

Aid trickles in as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 24,000

SYRIA – International aid was trickling into parts of Turkey and Syria on Saturday where rescuers toiled to pull children…

4 months ago

Children rescued as Turkey-Syria quake toll nears 24,000

KAHRAMANMARAS – Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 24,000 and…

4 months ago

Rescuers race to find Turkey-Syria quake survivors, toll tops 21,000

SYRIA | Rescuers scoured debris in a desperate search for survivors on Friday four days after a massive earthquake hit…

4 months ago

Death toll tops 21,000 from Turkey-Syria quake as hopes fade

SYRIA – The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 21,000 as…

4 months ago