Istanbul: Where Continents, Empires, and Souls Meet
The first thing I noticed in Istanbul was the sound. Not the noise of traffic or the chatter of tourists, but the haunting call to prayer drifting across the city from distant minarets.
The first thing I noticed in Istanbul was the sound. Not the noise of traffic or the chatter of tourists, but the haunting call to prayer drifting across the city from distant minarets.
Pope Leo XIV’s first foreign trip was never going to be a routine pastoral visit. The geographies he chose, Turkey and Lebanon, are not only symbolic crossroads of faiths but also corridors of conflict where diplomacy, identity and history constantly collide.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 individuals, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on charges of "genocide" in connection with the war in Gaza.
A Turkish court in Istanbul on Tuesday ordered the release of Umit Ozdag, leader of the nationalist Victory Party, five months after he was jailed on charges of inciting public hatred.
Russia has delivered the first batch of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to the border exchange point pursuant to the Istanbul accords, said Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin.
They are resentful of his overbearing rule, and feel frustrated by the economic reverses which have seen the Turkish lira’s strength reduce from four to the US dollar five years ago to nearly 20 now and inflation soar above 50 per cent in March.
Istanbul is a city that is avant-garde, high-fashioned, sophisticatedly cultured and highly progressive: a city that blends Europe’s panache with Oriental wisdom!
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said that grain exports via the Black Sea will begin in the coming days.
The Turkish leader reiterated that Ankara did not and will not remain silent about Israel's "atrocities" in Palestine
A 13-member Indian boxing team had gone on an exposure tour to Istanbul. However, evidently it has turned out to be an extremely depressing one for them.
