The American author and playwright first set foot in Istanbul in 1961, at the age of 36. Turkey was then alive with an artistic and intellectual effervescence, and for 10 years it became his refuge – a place of celebration and intense literary creation.

Wildfires that have engulfed Turkey for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing hundreds of people to flee their homes. Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa in northwest Turkey spread rapidly,

If found guilty, he faces up to seven years in prison and a ban from politics.Before his arrest, Imamoglu, 55, was widely seen as the strongest threat to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts to extend his hold on power,

Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, will need 122,000 new homes every year to support its growing population, a PwC report has said. The city will need 1.22 million houses over the next 10 years ...

A powerful earthquake shook Istanbul on Wednesday, sending residents of Turkey’s most populous city pouring into the streets as buildings swayed and onlookers screamed. The magnitude-6.2 tremor ...