to find out how the turkey became a symbol of Thanksgiving. Related: Highlighting 100 Years of Thanksgiving Tables at BHG Beth Forrest, Ph.D. is a food historian and professor of liberal arts and ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey on Thursday introduced a symbol for its national currency, the Turkish lira, in a move that reflects the country's ambitious aspirations to become a global player.

In popular culture, the debate over the national symbol was memorialized in the musical 1776, in which the Founding Fathers debate three possible birds as the national symbol in a memorable scene ...

Erdogan has the necessary votes in parliament to get his amendments passed, and the proposal has Turkey in an uproar. The head scarf is not just a “symbol of Islamic modesty” but also a symbol ...

Turkey, having tamed the hyperinflation that created all those zeros in the first place, now has one of the world's fastest-growing economies and a currency that has earned some respect and, as of ...

Now, a new proposed bill in Turkey’s parliament claims that a state emblem is an important symbol for every country and calls for a commission to design a new one. The bill’s sponsor is ...

My Instagram, Twitter and Facebook feed became yellow and black. The symbol went beyond Egypt and Turkey. It was used as far away as Malaysia, Indonesia and also in Europe." Closer to home ...

So yes, he did float the idea that a turkey might be a better bird for a national symbol. But only within the context that people were claiming the bald eagle symbol already looked like a turkey.

ANKARA, March 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan unveiled a new symbol for the Turkish lira on Thursday, but hit a barrage of criticism with the opposition complaining it looked like the ...