Life at sea was “like being in prison, with a chance of drowning”, 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson reckoned.

In a sweeping corruption investigation centered on the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), the Istanbul Chief Public ...

Some of my most vivid memories from my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Scruffy kids sold ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he will send a team headed by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to the Turkish city of Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian ...

Heritage trams are on track to reappear along Blackpool promenade later this year, the town's council has said. The old tram service was suspended in December 2024 because it was hard to run them ...

U.S. and European officials persuaded President Volodymyr Zelensky to represent Ukraine at upcoming peace talks in Istanbul despite Russia's evasiveness about who it would send, the Washington Post ...