Even then, some considered passports to be an “anachronism in the modern world.” But the use of paper passports—which were first digitized as “e-Passports” with NFC chips in 2006—is ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man carries goods at Eminonu commercial area, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 as Turkey’s ...

It's the day after Christmas and all through the house, there are piles of paper maybe as tall as your spouse. Packages and bows, there are plenty of those, but what can you do with all you accrue?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s central bank lowered its main interest rate for the first time in almost two years, pointing to ...

A court in Turkey has sentenced the owner and architect of a hotel which collapsed in an earthquake in 2023, killing 72 people, to jail. The owner of the Isias Grand, Ahmet Bozkurt, and architect ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

Teacher David Kennedy bought a turkey farm recently, and has been learning a lot about getting the birds raised in time for the Christmas table. (Submitted David Kennedy) For most teachers ...

Eleven people were killed in a blast at an explosives and ammunition factory in the village of Kavakli in the Karesi district of Balikesir province in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, according to the ...

A blast at an explosives factory in Turkey has killed at least 12 people, a government minister said. Four people were injured in the explosion, which happened in the village of Kavakli ...

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Surveillance video has captured the terrifying moment that a cargo ship rolled onto its side at a port in Istanbul, Turkey, sending workers running for their lives. According to Reuters, ...

An explosion at an ammunition and explosives factory in north-west Turkey has killed at least 12 people and injured four others. The blast happened at 08:25 local time (05:25 GMT) in the capsule ...