On discovering Turkey, one of the surprising facts was how big it is. Like many Brits we learn about the region by the countries we have invaded, bombed or owned. As it was not plain sailing for the ...

Turkey’s president has made a spectacle of the Ottoman past, using monuments and TV shows to rally his voters. His cultural opponents have faced censorship, or jail. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of ...

Under the glittering lights of the Halic Congress Center, the 27th Yapi Kredi Afife Theater Awards unfolded on Oct. 6 like Turkey’s own Tony Awards: elegant, emotional and filled with anticipation.

The two ministers held several talks regarding future cooperation between the two countries in the field of culture and the fight against antiquities trafficking. Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister ...

A growing Uyghur diaspora has found refuge—and a reconnection to their culture—in the neighborhoods of Istanbul. Girls pray in a back room at a cultural center that serves as a mosque in the Sefaköy ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...