Roasted turkey surrounded by herbs and spices, bowls of buttery mashed potatoes, cheesy mac and cheese and fluffy dinner rolls cover our Thanksgiving tables every year, yet we never seem to ...

A brother and sister, trapped inside a ski lodge in Turkey that had caught fire, were pleading for help. “Save us,” they wrote, their uncle, Ozgur Turkmen, said in a phone interview.

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A day of mourning is under way in Turkey for the 79 victims of a fire that engulfed a popular ski resort hotel in the country's north-west. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand ...

A fire at a hotel in a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 76 people, the country's interior minister has said. Ali Yerlikaya added that at least 51 other people were injured in the ...

The first victims of the devastating fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya, Turkey, have been identified. Among the 76 people killed in the fire at the ski resort in Bolu province was Vedia ...

A huge fire at a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 66 people and injured 51. The fire broke out at around 3.30 am (local time) in the restaurant of the 12-storey Grand Kartal hotel ...

Some guests died after jumping out of windows to escape the fire. The hotel was close to capacity with guests taking advantage of the school holidays. At least 76 people have died and more than 50 ...

An initial toll of 10 dead was raised significantly in the hours after the fire by Turkey's interior ministry. The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US.

Welcome back. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who turns 71 next month and is in his third decade as the nation’s leader, has an appetite for power that appears as healthy as ever.

Clockwise from bottom right: Areej and Ahmad al-Khaldi with their daughters Shaghaf and Sama, at home in Sanliurfa, Turkey.Credit...Rena Effendi for The New York Times Supported by By Alia Malek ...

Turkey has offered military assistance and capacity-building support to the new Syrian military to combat “terrorist groups”, during an unprecedented visit by a high-level Syrian delegation ...