In Istanbul, a center of culture, commerce and power for more than 2,000 years, the past never feels distant. Yet ...

Built in the image of Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. Salman (CC BY-SA 3.0) ... As for the interior, it is decorated with white marble and gold-painted verses from the Quran.

The Armenian prime minister has been seeking to normalize relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, though his visit sparked some protest and unease at home.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was meeting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on a rare visit to arch-foe ...

The mosque’s interior decorations are some of the most brilliant examples of Ottoman artistic tradition. A total of 21,043 hand-crafted tiles produced in the Iznik and Kütahya workshops are ...

At the heart of Istanbul’s Old Town, the Hagia Sophia stands near the Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, several museums and pleasant Sultan Ahmet Park. 2/3 Swipe or click to see more ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas of Turkey on Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the city of 16 ...

A strong earthquake rattled Istanbul, ... 51 aftershocks — the largest of which was 5.9 magnitude — had been recorded," Interior Minister Ali ... which houses the famed Blue Mosque and ...

It was felt in the neighboring provinces of Tekirdag, Yalova, Bursa and Balikesir and in the city of Izmir, some 340 miles south of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the earthquake ...

It was felt in the neighboring provinces of Tekirdag, Yalova, Bursa and Balikesir and in the city of Izmir, some 340 miles south of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the earthquake ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of i ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — An ... (340 miles) south of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the earthquake lasted 13 seconds and was followed by ... which houses the Blue Mosque and the Hagia ...