Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Waving flags and chanting slogans, hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied in Istanbul Saturday calling for democracy to be defended after the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People shout slogans during a rally called by ...

Katarina Barley, Vice President of the European Parliament, was among the delegation that visited the jailed politician in Istanbul's Silivri prison. A delegation from the European Union ...

Demonstrators flooded Istanbul's streets, heeding the call of Turkey's main opposition CHP party. The mass protests, ongoing since top CHP figure Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, are among the biggest ...

Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have returned to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to show support for the city's jailed mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as the main rival of ...

Built as Byzantium around 657 BC and then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century CE after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the city of Istanbul officially received its present name ...

It's also one of the biggest tourist draws in Istanbul. Visitors say this mosque offers stunning architecture inside and out. It can, however, get busy, so consider arriving early. And remember ...

Protesters demand Imamoglu’s release and an end to democratic backsliding. In Istanbul’s Kadikoy, thousands of protesters marched through the neighborhood Wednesday night as residents leaned ...

Istanbul, Turkiye – The scent of tear gas ... A short ride away from Uskudar, in the hip neighbourhood of Kadikoy, a protest over the weekend ended with people returning to the coffee shops ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of ...

As evening approached in Kadikoy on March 23, the sound of residents banging on pots from their balconies in support of Istanbul’s jailed mayor rang through the air.