Istanbul’s heaviest rain in decades kills two and shuts schools
Istanbul’s governor called the downpour the city’s worst in 84 years, and the toll is already human as well as material. A 14-year-old boy died after stepping into an electrified…
An old film where the news should be: Turkey seizes Halk TV, the opposition’s biggest voice
Viewers who tuned in to Halk TV on Wednesday morning expected the news. What they got, after the feed was cut mid-interview, was a Turkish movie from 1973. Within hours,…
A Bronze Age cargo with no ship left: divers off Turkey find what may be the oldest wreck ever discovered
Some 4,500 years ago a small merchant boat went down off what is now Turkey’s southern coast, and the sea swallowed every trace of its timber. What it could not…