As the fasting period begins each year, a time-honoured practice – dating back to the Ottoman era – comes to life on Turkish ...

The tradition of Ramadan drummers dates back to the Ottoman era when alarm clocks were a luxury few could afford. As a result, drummers took on the role of waking people up, a practice that continues ...

Traditional Ramadan drummers perform to wake people up for the iftar meal in Mamak district of Ankara, Türkiye, on March 12, ...

The wrenching dilemma echoes across Türkiye, host to the world's largest Syrian refugee population. While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced last week that over 133,000 Syrians in ...

Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) decision to heed its jailed leader's call for peace was correct and ...

"This is an old culture that we are trying to preserve ... Even in metropolitan areas like Istanbul, the capital city Ankara, and Izmir, where modern life has reshaped many customs, the sound ...

Even from the island prison where he has spent the past 26 years, Abdullah Ocalan still wields power over the Kurdistan ...

He did a crowd-work special that included sections called “Mexican,” “Colombian,” and “Black Women.” His newest special, ...

Rachel Décoste landed in West Africa’s Republic of Benin in August 2018, anticipating an important journey of self-discovery, but not predicting just the extent to which the trip would change her life ...

The Turkish Cypriot leader in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided island of Cyprus is toeing Ankara's line and ...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey - Residents in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, said on Sunday that ... prosperity would follow if the decades-old conflict ended. On Saturday, the PKK ...