VIDEO: Hot air balloons collide mid-air in Turkey
Two tourists, a Brazilian and a Spaniard, died Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot air balloons [...]
PHOTOS: Adventures in Turkey’s Mediterranean region
Make sure to pack your hiking boots, swim suit, whetted appetite and boundless curiosity, because there ain’t no mountain high [...]
Five adventures in Turkey’s Mediterranean region
Where to have an action-packed adventure, and what to eat before and afterwards
Secular Turks see red over airline’s lipstick ban
Turkey’s national airline has barred female flight attendants from wearing red lipstick and nail polish, striking a nerve among secular Turks worried the country is becoming more Islamic.
Fazil Say: Tweeting Turkish pianist given suspended sentence for blasphemy
A world-renowned concert pianist was given a suspended jail sentence in Turkey on Monday for insulting religious values on Twitter, a case which has become a cause celebre for Turks alarmed about creeping Islamic conservatism.
Obama brokers Israel-Turkey rapprochement
Israel apologized to Turkey on Friday for killing nine Turkish citizens in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla and both feuding U.S. allies agreed to normalize relations in a surprise breakthrough announced by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Sarai Sierra’s killer describes SI mother’s final moments
The man wanted for the killing of a Staten Island mother while she was on vacation in Istanbul earlier this [...]
Body of Staten Island mom Sarai Sierra is returned home
As the body of a Staten Island wife and mother who was killed while traveling alone in Turkey was flown [...]