Middle East

The UNESCO World Heritage Site, a sixth century building at the heart of both the Christian Byzantine and Muslim Ottoman empires Converting Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to …

Smoke billows from a fire following the explosion at the fireworks factory A series of large explosions shook a fireworks factory in northwest Turkey’s Sakarya province on Friday, killing two …

Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, leaves the Justice Palace after attending the trial A Turkish court put 20 Saudi officials on trial in absentia on …

Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, REUTERS/Murad Sezer A Turkish court on Thursday heard a case aimed at converting Istanbul’s sixth century Agia Sophia back into a mosque and will …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit Berlin later today for talks with German officials to discuss the pandemic and tourism among other issues Turkey said it is disappointed by …

Finished in the year 537 with futuristic building techniques in what was then Constantinople, it was the main cathedral in Christendom – and the world’s largest – for 900 years …

Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi A Turkish court will open the trial on Friday of 20 Saudi officials indicted over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, …

FILE PHOTO: Turkish Red Crescent President Kerem Kinik REUTERS/Murad Sezer The head of the Turkish Red Crescent denied expressing homophobic sentiments in a tweet criticised as offensive by the agency …

Construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Israel’s foreign minister said an announcement on the proposed annexation of occupied West Bank land was …

People queue to buy bread at a bakery in Beirut. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir The Lebanese government on Tuesday raised the price of a 900-gramme loaf of partially subsidised bread to 2,000 …