The 86th anniversary of the passing of modern Türkiye's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was commemorated in the US on Sunday. The Turkish Embassy in Washington DC held a ceremony to pay tribute to ...

A documentary that portrays the revered founder of modern Turkey as a lonely womanizer with a weakness for alcohol and cigarettes is drawing massive crowds but outraging hardline followers of Mustafa ...

Ceremonies commemorating the 85th anniversary of the passing of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Türkiye, were held on Friday worldwide. In the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Ottoman Empire, having suffered military defeats at the hands of Europe, realized it could match its rivals only by becoming a European society itself. So it ...

Istanbul, Turkey – For decades, his image has dominated the landscape of Turkey, his icy-blue eyes staring down from the walls of every school, hospital and government institution. Even the sleepiest ...

The photograph shows a pair of men in dusty work clothes, saluting proudly as they stand at attention inside a gutted reinforced-concrete building. The caption, in Turkish, tells us that the picture ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey – It is an act that could lead to jail time, but such punishment has failed to deter a wave of vandalism against statues honouring modern secular Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk, which ...

At five minutes past 9 one morning last week, in the capital city of Ankara, a bugler blew a blast, and all over the nation’s 296,000 square miles, 21 million Turks stood motionless for five minutes.

Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey — Emre Karacali was finishing up his evening meal on the ground floor of Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night, the first food he’d had after a 17-hour Ramadan ...

Turkish officials have decided against making public the letters and diaries of the wife of modern Turkey's revered founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The issue over Latife Usakligil's documents ...