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Sayyid Ali Hussaini (center), his wife Mahbube and daughter Elisa sit together in the Turkish city of Trabzon. Originally from the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the family fled Taliban advances over the summer and arrived in Turkey last month.

World News

His Family Fled Afghanistan. In Turkey, Other Afghans Help Them Build A New Life

6:13pm September 20, 2021

by Durrie Bouscaren

The Taliban beat him for being Hazara. He spent his life savings to smuggle his family to Turkey — climbing over its border wall — to find a community of Afghans that helps each other get settled.

A man leaves as advancing fires rage the Hisaronu area, Turkey on Monday. For the sixth straight day, Turkish firefighters battled the blazes that are tearing through forests near Turkey's beach destinations.

Wildfires Are Driving People Out Of Turkish Vacation Spots

9:00pm August 02, 2021

by Josie Fischels

Residents and tourists alike are being forced to evacuate Turkey's coastal towns, where flames have blazed for six days.

Archaeologist Ferudun Ozgumus stands in what is believed to be a Byzantine-era substructure in Istanbul.

World News

Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore An Ancient City's Byzantine Basements

4:27pm July 23, 2021

by Durrie Bouscaren

Below the surface of the sprawling, modern metropolis is a different world. Archaeologists are gaining insights into the city's ancient past by examining the basements of ordinary buildings.

President Biden speaks at the White House on April 20, 2021. "The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today," he said in a statement Saturday.

Biden Calls Slaughter Of Armenians A Genocide, Posing Test For U.S. Ties With Turkey

3:00pm April 24, 2021

by Alana Wise

The designation, which came on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, reflects an effort by Biden to set a new tone on human rights, yet adds friction to an already strained relationship with Ankara.

Armenian refugees on the deck of a French cruiser that rescued them in 1915 during the massacre of the Armenian populations in the Ottoman Empire.

Biden Could Call The Massacres Of Armenians Genocide. Here's What That Means

1:43pm April 23, 2021

U.S. lawmakers expect President Biden to recognize the World War I-era mass killing and deportation of Armenians as genocide — even if it makes Turkey angry.

In this March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria.

World News

No Country Will Take Them: Alleged ISIS Widow With Kids The Latest Of Many In Limbo

8:48am March 26, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The case of a woman who reportedly married ISIS fighters and is now stuck in Turkey with her young children has become the subject of a diplomatic dispute between Australia and New Zealand.

Volunteers clear the Old Market district of debris in Aleppo, Syria, in 2019. Years of fighting have left many sections of Aleppo destroyed.

World News

Syria's Civil War Started A Decade Ago. Here's Where It Stands

10:51am March 15, 2021

The conflict has not only pitted the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad against a band of rebels, but drawn the U.S., Iran, Russia and Turkey, among others, into a complex proxy war.

An official has a blood pressure test before receiving the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, developed in China, at a hospital in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on January 15.

China's Sinovac Vaccine Is Rolling Out Around The World. Will It Work?

10:08pm January 19, 2021

by Maria Godoy

Research suggests the vaccine prevents disease only 50% of the time. But it could still have a big impact. And many countries are betting on it.

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Corn and Cob, a pair of turkeys that President Trump will pardon, attend a press conference announcing their names Monday at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Politics & Government

Trump Pardons Corn The Turkey, Trying To Show Normalcy Amid The Abnormal

2:50pm November 24, 2020

by Domenico Montanaro

The strange tradition of a president pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving happened again despite Trump holding few public events since losing — and not accepting — the 2020 election.

Rescue workers carry Ayda Gezgin away from where she was trapped by rubble after a building collapsed during last week's earthquake in the Aegean port city of Izmir, Turkey.

World News

'Our Miracle': Girl Survives 4 Days In Quake Rubble, Cheering Turkey

1:45pm November 03, 2020

by Bill Chappell

The girl's name is Ayda Gezgin – but officials call her "our miracle" after she was pulled relatively unharmed from a collapsed building.