Languages of Iran

A group of prominent Turkish writers has announced that it will visit towns, villages and refugee camps across the border from the Syrian town of Kobane, where heavy fighting between Islamist militants and Kurdish fighters has been ongoing for more than a month.

The fifth annual Divine Liturgy on the Akdamar Island’s famous 10th-century church was held on Sept. 7, with the participation of Christians from Turkey and around the world.

The church was reopened to occasional prayers in 2010 after a hiatus of nearly 100 years.

Farzad Shafai, an Afghan refugee, arrived in Turkey four years ago. Against all odds, he managed to make it into university. Unending bureaucracy stands between him and his future

Locals in the northwestern province of Sakarya have claimed that an unidentified person dressed in white and who looks like a “ghoul” has been knocking on their doors and windows for the past 18 months with the aim of scaring them.

Two “citizens” who did not believe they were citizens of this country lost their lives when security forces finally decided the show was over, roads cannot be left to the control of the “citizen” groups unhappy with the construction of enforced military outposts.

Leaked voice recordings allegedly belonging to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “were montage,” Turkey’s science watchdog TÜBİTAK has concluded in an expert report submitted to the Ankara Prosecutor’s Office on June 6.