A similar tragedy unfolded in the Black Sea province of Artvin on December 31, when an avalanche hit a plateau at an altitude ...

State-owned Anadolu news agency said 625 village roads were closed in Van province, 368 in Mus, 298 in Tunceli and 49 in ...

Roads to hundreds of villages are closed across Turkey's east due to heavy snowfall:: Van, Turkey:::: Siirt, ...

Most cities across the country were embattled with severely cold weather and snowfall on Thursday as Türkiye welcomed 2026.

One Turkish military veteran of the conflict, Major Mehmet Bedri Aluclu, lost his eyesight and both forearms when a PKK mine that he was defusing exploded in Siirt province in 2007. Aluclu, with books ...

Victims of Turkey's Kurdish Militant Conflict Long for Peace By Daren Butler KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings ...

Aerial view of the Bronze Age site of Basur Höyük. Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and ...

Voters across Turkey cast their ballots on Sunday for municipal elections, seen as test of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and of his ruling AKP party. All eyes are on the race to control the country's ...

Shayna Josi is a Features Writer from South Africa. Shayna has always been passionate about stories, and has dedicated her life to learning how to tell them. Aside from writing about her favorite ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two groups of the government-affiliated village guards in the Kurdish province of Siirt in southeast Turkey (Bakur) clashed over a land dispute that led to the death of at ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A roadside bomb exploded on a group of Turkish soldiers in the country’s Kurdish province of Siirt on Tuesday, killing a soldier and injuring another, state media reported, ...