RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Dennis Schröder simply took over to deliver more gold for Germany. Schröder had the game 's final six points, Isaac Bonga scored a team-best 20 points and Germany topped Turkey, 88-83, on Sunday, Sept. 14, in the gold medal game at the European championship. It was...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey and Israel announced trade barriers on each other Tuesday as relations deteriorated further amid the war in Gaza. Turkey, a staunch critic of Israel's military actions in the territory, announced that it was restricting exports of 54 types of products to Israel with...
ISTANBUL (AFP) -- The disgraced former president of Turkish club Ankaragucu was handed a lifetime ban by Turkey's football federation on Thursday, Dec. 14, after punching a referee following a game earlier this week. Turkish Referee Halil Umut Meler (ground) cover itself as MKE Ankaragucu's...
PARIS (AFP) -- Spain clinched its place at Euro 2024 on Sunday, Oct. 15, after a 1-0 win away to Norway, also sending Scotland through from Group A as Turkey joined the growing ranks of qualifiers. Spain's players celebrate their team's second goal during the EURO 2024 first round group A...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Tuesday, Oct. 10, revealed plans by the Turkish government to grant scholarships to Filipino students. (From left) Vice President Sara Duterte and Turkish Ambassador to Manila Niyazi Evren Akyol shake hands during a meeting on Oct. 9, 2023....
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A disgraced Turkish crypto founder who fled to Albania and his two brothers have been sentenced to 11,196 years in jail each, the Anadolu state news agency reported Friday. Prosecutors had asked for Thodex boss Faruk Fatih Ozer, 29, to be sentenced to 40,562 years in prison for...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A US explorer trapped deep in a Turkish cave with internal bleeding said in a video released to AFP on Friday that he needed "a lot of help" getting out. Mark Dickey, 40, reported falling sick last Saturday while exploring the Morca Cave in southern Turkey's Taurus Mountains with...
ISTANBUL, Turkiye -- Four immigrants were found dead in a truck at a Turkish border gate with Greece, Ihlas News Agency reported Monday. At Türkiye's Ipsala border gate in the northwestern province of Edirne, the truck driver, known by his initials as M.B., found in his truck bed the four...
I might have had Gene Wilder’s song “Pure Imagination” from the movie *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* in mind when I got up at 3 a.m. in my room at the Temenni Evi, a charming cave hotel in Cappadocia in central Türkiye. But I rose from bed like the Wizard on a hot-air balloon, which...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Ermine Erdogan wave to his supporters following his victory in the second round of the presidential election at the Presidential Palace in Ankara early May 29, 2023. Adem ALTAN / AFP ANKARA, Türkiye -- Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin were among world...
Türkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) MOSCOW, Russia -- When Turks head to the polls on Sunday to decide a historic presidential election, the Kremlin will be hoping they give long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan a convincing victory, observers say. The winner will...
SEASON OF BLOOMS Flowers give the browns and beiges, the tans and taupes, the off-whites and ochres of Cappadocia's volcanic landscape in central Turkey in May (Photos by author) I will take inspiration from a flower, in eternal bloom, for if it has wilted, is it still a flower? The remains of a...
