As the Syrian regime has cracked down on dissent, Turkey has maintained ties with Syria. But years of bilateral effort are at risk as Turkey begins to side more and more with the Syrian people ...

Strabo—the name means “squinty-eyed,” as in strabismus—was born in 63 B.C. in Anatolia (now Turkey). “Geography” is an eyewitness guide to Greek and Roman society under Emperor ...

Cyprus said on Monday it would invite arch-foe Turkey to a summit during its European Union presidency next year despite a decades-long rift over Ankara's 1974 invasion and its backing of a breakaway ...

Relations between Turkey and Russia are subject to the demands of geography rather than a common bitter history. It is common in politics to invoke history.

Turkey’s future is a puzzle, with its unique position between Europe, Russia, and the Middle East making it a key player in global affairs. Historically, Turkey has been at the crossroads of ancient ...

Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Saturday vowed to transform the Middle East into a "peaceful geography" in an opening ceremony in southeastern Adiyaman province. Soylu called out ...

Test your geography smarts with this quiz: Q: What four seas touch the nation of Turkey? A. The Mediterranean, the Aegean, the Black Sea and the inland Sea of Marmara.

Life moves slowly in Hasankeyf, a town on the banks of the Tigris in the heavily Kurdish region of far southeastern Turkey. Geography and political unrest have kept the modern world largely at bay ...

Turkey and Syria’s devastating earthquakes in graphics Outline the characteristics of the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 ...

Turkey’s strategic environment has become even more complicated following the Russian annexation of Crimea.

To the west, Ankara wants to exploit its position to gain leverage with the world's second-biggest energy consumer, the European Union, whose membership Turkey seeks. Looking east and south ...

The invitation of the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the BRICS summit this year was a logical step by the association if its aim, as appearances suggest, is to enact multilateralism ...