The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year's first chance to see fireballs in the sky. Here's what to know about the ...

One of the wonderful things about hitting retirement age is having the flexibility in your schedule to go out and explore the ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered on Istanbul’s Galata Bridge on New Year’s Day to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

On December 22, 2024, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rallied a crowd of his Islamist supporters in Mardin, not far ...

No trip to Turkey is complete without entering the many magical mosques of the country, but don't go making any social gaffs ...

The grant opening of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium was held on December 27, 537 AD.

Southbound traffic in Turkey's Bosphorus strait will resume at 1440 GMT on Thursday, having been halted earlier in the day after a tanker suffered an engine failure during northbound transit through ...

CUL-TURKIYE-MOSQUE Hagia Sophia built as cathedral, transformed into museum and mosque Photo Feature by Hussein Bahbahani ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 23 (KNA) -- Hagia Sophia mosque is a world-level historic and cultural landmark ... It finished in 537 AD to become the largest cathedral in the world for nine centuries. After the ...