President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday drove the first car through Istanbul’s new Eurasia Tunnel under the Marmara Sea. The president was the driver. His passengers were Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Ahmet Arslan, transport and communications minister. The car departed from Harem...

The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper,...

An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the western Anbar province to fight the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced Friday evening. Iraqi state television broadcast footage showing hundreds of military vehicles and...

Two terrorists thought to have been planning a car bomb attack in capital Ankara blew themselves up when confronted by police on Saturday. The pair -- said to be linked to the PKK -- died as police converged on a horse farm in Haymana, around 7 kilometers (4 miles) south of the city. No...