ANKARA: Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Thursday agreed to further advance the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two sides.
The agreement came during 27th ASEAN-Japan Summit in Laos capital Vientiane, att…
ISTANBUL: Semsi Hasan from southeastern Trkiye is again being taken home by the Turkish Navy, for the first time in 18 years, following his evacuation by ship in 2006, during the 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon.
Turkish naval amphibious ships t…
ANKARA : Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on Thursday.
The author was born in 1970 in South Korea, where she still resides, as t…
ISTANBUL: The once-forgotten Arctic has emerged as a new geopolitical frontier as Russia and China’s growing partnership tightens over the region. Estimated to hold about 30% of the world’s undiscovered natural gas and 13% of its oil, the Arctic also …
ANKARA: At least 55 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 42,065, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Thursday.
A ministry statement added that some 97,886 others…
ISTANBUL: The basis of democracy is political representation, as citizens do not directly rule. Liberal democracy is essentially representative democracy, whereby political rule is effectively conducted by political parties through the electoral proce…
ANKARA: China has strongly condemned a recent US arms sales to Taiwan, calling on Washington to reverse the decision, state-run media reported.
Opposing the move, Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Wu Qian said late Wednesday that the …
ANKARA: Turkish ships and aircraft are prepared for additional evacuations from Lebanon if needed, a spokesperson at Trkiye’s National Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
“Our planning is based on demand,” an official told at weekly press briefing, re…