Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

As it became increasingly clear that Syrians were not imminently leaving Turkey, the Turkish government formalized the Temporary Protection Regulation in 2014. It allowed Syrian nationals access to the Turkish education and health care systems and laid the groundwork for them to pursue employment if they could secure work permits.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. poultry producers should ramp up testing and monitoring of turkeys for bird flu before they are slaughtered to ensure the virus stays out of the food supply, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.

The fall of the Assad dynasty has changed Turkey's calculus on how to deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the launch of Turkey’s “Year of the Family” with an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and the announcement of measures to boost birth rates.

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. On Monday, he declared 2025 to be “the year of the family” and unveiled measures aimed at raising the national birth rate.

Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for now, by Turkey. This should come as no surprise: the history of the Middle East between the 16th and 18th centuries was that of struggle between the Ottoman and Persian empires, and it seems to be reviving in the 21st century.

Meat industry giant Cargill has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle a class action accusing it of conspiring with rival processors to fix the price of turkey, according to a filing in Chicago federal court.

Nakia Holmes, the former owner of the Turkey Leg Hut in Houston, has spoken out for the first time since the Third Ward restaurant unceremoniously shuttered at the end of 2024. In a recent interview with Essence Magazine—which generously credited much of our original reporting on the matter (thank you)—Holmes touched on a handful of pivotal moments in the restaurant's timeline.

Ankara breaks its silence as Erdogan’s ruling party delivers the first official response to Israel’s support for the Kurdish-led SDF.

Autobiographical, each is bravely candid and brilliantly performed, drawing us in, not to people who played Hamlet, but to people whom Hamlet consumed. Schmitz’s Skip Retail Therapy looks back at his time selling second-hand books,