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pek Yezdani ISTANBUL For the first time in history, a Turkish citizen has been chosen as the archbishop of the U.S. to lead the GreekOrthodoxArchdiocese of America. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, who was born and raised in the Bakrköy district of Istanbul, is c…

ISTANBUL- Anadolu Agency Turkey's first Turkish-Armenian television station has hit the airwaves, according to the journalist spearheading the project.         Every Friday night, for the first time in Turkey we're broadcasting news in Western Armenian, sai…

ANKARA-Anadolu Agency Turkey on June 12 slammed a Dutch parliament resolution on the 1915 Armenian events against Turkey.          "We strongly reject the resolutions adopted yesterday in the House of Representatives in the Netherlands upon the…

A firsthand look at the compromises and costs of American involvement in Syria. An American in the Islamic State Behind the fence of a refugee camp in the green plains of northeastern Syria, a white woman approaches from the sea of tents. Her long brown hai…

BAKU- Anadolu Agency Turkey and Azerbaijan are determined to strengthen cooperation in joint energy and transport projects, Turkish parliament's deputy speaker said on June 11. Süreyya Sadi Bilgiç, accompanied by a delegation from the Turkish parliament, me…

Fringed by austere, tawny-hued peaks soaring to 13,000ft (3.9km) the startlingly blue Lake Van, an inland sea seven times larger than Lake Geneva, is one of Turkey's best-kept secrets. Given that this intriguingly beautiful high-altitude lake (it's 5380ft a…

Ani – some call it the City of 1001 Churches, others the City of Forty Gates.  Yet no one has called it home for more than three centuries.Abandoned by its once prosperous and powerful inhabitants, it is situated on the Turkish side of a militarised zone betw…

ANKARA- Anadolu Agency Turkey on June 9 commemorated the assassination of the Turkish Secretary at the Consulate-General of Turkey in Geneva Mehmet Sava Yergüz. "We remember with respect our martyr Mehmet Sava Yergüz, Secretary at the Consulate-General of …

Turkish by birth, Shafak has lived all over the world and though her novels are set in different places, Istanbul often features as a backdrop. In 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, she is affectionate but ambivalent about the city, which is called …

Half the people you meet in Istanbul are from the Black Sea, said a news bureau chief over meze one night in Istanbuls vine-tangled Cihangir neighborhood. And how right he is. Istanbul, straddling both Europe and Asia, is very much a Karadeniz (Black Sea) c…