Mehmed

The summer had just begun. It was the weekend before the U.S. Supreme Court voted in favor of gay marriages. 

I had planned a holiday over the weekend with good friends, and we flew to the south coast of Turkey to spend some relaxed days in the hidden bays and the little hippie villages that can only be reached by boat ride or a dangerous climbing route. 

After producing artwork in many areas such as films, music, literature and painting, Mehmet Güreli?s art exhibition titled ?Alope?s Chamber? has opened for art lovers at Istanbul?s Carré d?Artistes Gallery. 

With three published books, five albums, four movies and twenty personal art exhibitions, Güreli?s figurative and expressionist style truly shines through in his paintings. 

Turkish authorities blocked access to Twitter and YouTube due to the websites' refusal to remove photos of a public prosecutor, who was taken hostage last week and was later killed by his abductors.

The father of Gezi protester Mehmet Ayval?ta?, who died in 2013, was beaten by security forces near an Istanbul courthouse during a scuffle ahead of the sixth hearing into his son's death on March 25.

In a book recently published, through sketches and drawings, one catches a glimpse into the mind of a young Fatih Sultan Mehmed as a schoolboy with big dreams Doodling has been around for centuries, maybe millennia; at its simplest, it is defined as sketching aimlessly or mindlessly. In spite of this "art" form, there does not seem to be an equivalent word in Turkish, just a definition.

A judge presiding over a terror case in Germany has stirred controversy at home by wearing a T-shirt bearing the signature of a 15th century Ottoman sultan.

If five prominent Ottomans had not understood the importance of printing Ottoman Turkish books in 1727, many decades would have passed before the right circumstances happened again

?brahim Müteferrika.

Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has claimed that Turkey will, by 2018, be the "only country in the world" with hospitals equipped with the most advanced technological equipment and buildings constructed using the latest technology.

The newly elected member of the HSYK, Mehmet Yılmaz, who was in the “Unity in Justice Platform” list, called me.

Turkey must reform its economy to get back to high growth, Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said on Oct. 15