Russia Donates 260,000 Tons of Fertilizer to Africa
Russia has donated 260,000 metric tons of fertilizer it produced that was sitting in European ports and warehouses for use by farmers in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday. “This Read More
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Yandex Board gathers in Istanbul after parent company announces intention to exit Russia
Yandex’s Board is meeting to discuss re-structuring plans. The Board has already announced that it hopes to divest most of its Russian business, with hopes of maintaining four key startups Read More
Exclusive: Iranian Dissident Journalist Who Disappeared In Turkey Ends Up In Custody Of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
An Iranian dissident journalist who went missing in Turkey has ended up in Iran, where is being held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, RFE/RL has learned. Mohammad Bagher Moradi, Read More
Despite Odds, Italian and Turkish Leaders Find Common Ground
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italy’s newly elected far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni appear to be finding unlikely common ground on issues relating to Africa and migration. The relationship Read More
The EU is privatizing its migrant rescue work — by default
The EU has outsourced a big chunk of its migration policy to a fleet of privately run boats searching the Mediterranean waters for asylum seekers in crisis. In recent weeks, Read More
Vintage Magazines Tell Tale of Turkish City’s Literary Past
An exhibition in Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir gives viewers an in-depth look at local periodicals and other publications that are more than a century old. VOA’s Mahmut Bozarslan has Read More
Smyrna review – raw, shocking violence in epic take on Greek-Turkish conflict
Grigoris Karantinakis’s bustling ensemble drama recreates the buildup to a 1922 massacre in what is now İzmir, even if some characters are just walking Wikipedia entriesThis epic historical drama could Read More
Smyrna review – raw, shocking violence in epic take on Greek-Turkish conflict
Grigoris Karantinakis’s bustling ensemble drama recreates the buildup to a 1922 massacre in what is now İzmir, even if some characters are just walking Wikipedia entriesThis epic historical drama could Read More
Thousands Protest Turkish Strikes on Kurdish Groups in Syria
Thousands of Kurds protested on Sunday in the Syrian city of Qamishli against days of deadly Turkish cross-border strikes targeting Kurdish groups in the country’s northeast. Turkey announced last Sunday Read More
Living in fear: Iranian LGBTQ+ activists in Turkey
Fariba Nawa is a journalist based in Istanbul and host of On Spec podcast. She’s also the author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey through Read More
