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Since the beginning of 2025, more than 160 people have died from poisoning after drinking bootleg alcohol in Turkey. How did going out for a drink become so dangerous?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. About a year into his job as Turkey’s spymaster, Hakan Fidan was dispatched to Damascus to persuade Syrian ...

See photos of the country singer throughout the years. Now that’s what I call an icon! Dolly Parton is a singer, actress, and philanthropist who has been a country music icon for 7 decades.

For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s Kurdish minority.

For half a century, Kurdish militants have fought Turkey for independence in the southeast of the country, a region heavily populated by ethnic Kurds. The battle has claimed more than 40,000 lives ...

Ramzi Haidar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images But there was little ... greater rights for Kurds inside Turkey. For many Turks, Mr. Ocalan is the country’s most despised terrorist.

After decades of fighting an insurgency, the Kurdish group declared a cease-fire. Two days earlier, the P.K.K.’s imprisoned leader called on his fighters to lay down their arms. By Ben Hubbard ...

an extension of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought for Kurdish rights in Turkey for decades and is listed by Ankara as a terrorist organisation. The country wants to push the SDF ...

Some 250 elementary students from Rainbow District School Board schools hit the trails for a cross-country ski race at the Capreol Cross ... Click through the gallery above to view more photos from ...