The great cliché about Turkey oft-uttered by outside commentators tends to focus on its strategic geography: east-west divide, north-south ditto, Europe meets Asia, cultural crossroads and the like.

Turkey's prime minister and president, along with the officials from Japan and Romania, were on hand to inaugurate the giant rail system. The tunnel, the deepest of its kind, runs eight and a half ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Maritime authorities shut Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers on Saturday "for security and safety" reasons, shipping agent GAC said, after what the government said ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey's maritime authority said on Thursday it would continue to block oil tankers without appropriate insurance letters from its waters and it needed time to make checks, ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Coast guard and maritime police vessels in Istanbul were searching Monday for a Russian swimmer who went missing during a cross-Bosphorus race a day earlier, Turkish state-run media ...

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