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Antakya’s Uzun Çarşı, a historic covered bazaar, was partially destroyed during the Feb. 6 earthquakes. Workers have cleared much of the debris from walkways and shopkeepers have reopened, sometimes directly across from piles of rubble.
Natural disasters
In Turkey’s hardest-hit province, earthquake survivors adapt to a life without buildings
Zehra Kurukafa walks past a destroyed house in the village of Polat, Turkey, Feb. 12, 2023.
Natural disasters
Turkey earthquake survivors face despair, as rescues wane
Men remove debris as they search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023.
Natural disasters
After deadly quake in Turkey, rescue teams struggle to help amid frigid temps
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Conflict & Justice
As bombs fall, northern Syria braces for a potential Turkish invasion
People put flowers over a memorial placed on the spot of Sunday's explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Nov. 14, 2022.
Violence
Turkey detains Syrian suspect in deadly Istanbul bombing
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Economics
‘How long will this continue?’: People in Istanbul see their rents double as inflation soars
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Military
Turkey eyes a new military operation in northern Syria, leaving people in the area on edge
A security guard stands at the entrance of the Medical Forensic Institution in Istanbul, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022.
Migration
In a Turkish border town, migrant ‘pushbacks’ from Greece turn deadly
A semazen leans his head back while turning during a sema ritual at the Irfan Civilization Research and Culture Center in Konya, Turkey.
Sacred Nation
Turkey’s ‘whirling dervishes’ strive to keep the practice sacred amid tourist demand
Protesters chant slogans against the government's decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention
LGBTQ
Hundreds protest Turkey’s withdrawal from treaty to prevent violence against women
A view of a steel wall at Evros river, near the village of Poros, at the Greek-Turkish border, Greece, Friday, May 21, 2021. 
Critical State
What’s a border anyway? Part I
Greek and Cypriot flags flutter on poles on the left, as Turkish and Turkish Cypriot breakaway flags fly between minarets on the right
As Cyprus’ leaders convene for peace talks in Geneva, some Cypriots say ‘expectations are low’
A few cows graze on green grass along a river in daylight hours.
Development
Istanbul’s mega-canal poses threats to surrounding villages, wildlife
Sevilay, a mother of two in Istanbul, got permission from her husband to have an abortion as required by law. But she had trouble finding a public hospital that would do it, and even some of her friends criticize her for her decision.
Reproductive rights
Abortion increasingly hard to access in Turkey
A Turkish ship with a flag sails in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Borders
Greece and Turkey sail toward a crisis of sea borders 
The Facebook logo and binary cybercodes are seen in this illustration dating to Nov. 26, 2019.
Free speech
Turkey passes ‘draconian’ social media legislation
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's supporters rally in Istanbul in 2016 following the failed coup.
Conflict & Justice
Expulsions, pushbacks and extraditions: Turkey’s war on dissent extends to Europe
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Refugees
EU will not give in to Erdoğan’s ‘blackmail,’ says Greek MEP
Students play a soccer game on a basketball court at a boarding school for Uighur children on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey.
Education
In Turkey, a boarding school cares for Uighur children separated from their parents
A woman stands over a spread of dishes in the kitchen
Food
A Syrian mom in Istanbul builds a business from her own kitchen with Whatsapp
A middle-aged man stands at a podium with the Turkish and Iranian flag behind him.
Turkey to delay Syria operation as ISIS mounts attack
Muhammed Erdogan, the first Syrian turned Turkish citizen to run for parliament in Turkey, in front of his campaign truck.
Global Politics
The ‘Syrian Erdogan’ running in Turkey’s parliamentary elections
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Islam and the cosmos
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A supporter of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waves a US and Turkish flag as he waits for him to arrive outside of The Peninsula hotel in Manhattan, New York City, Sept. 19, 2017.
Conflict
Turkey’s propaganda war targets America’s state capitals
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Economics
In Istanbul, outrage over Zara not paying garment workers
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Culture
Award-winning Turkish writer free to travel again
A Turkish demonstrator holds a banner in Istanbul in April 2009. It reads, "No soldiers for Afghanistan. Return to your home Obama."
Books
Eat, pray, admit you’re from an empire
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Conflict
DNA might help him identify his family. But he can’t find a way to give a sample.
Atlanta (left) and her sister Phoenix lounge with a volunteer outside the cargo hall before leaving Istanbul.
Culture
Turkey has a golden retriever problem. America can help.
Elif Koc, 18, shapes a customer's eyebrows at the Twins salon in Istanbul. Kroc is voting yes on Sunday's referendum. But she says the issue is dividing her family.
Global Politics
Is Turkey’s referendum a vote for more efficient government, or a power grab?
A Syrian refugee woman, who is stuck between the Jordanian and Syrian borders, holds her child near the town of Ruwaished, in the Hadalat area, east of the capital Amman, May 4, 2016.
Conflict
What 2017 could bring for millions of displaced Syrians
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Conflict
ISIS claims responsibility for the deadly attack inside a Turkish nightclub on New Year’s night
A Syrian class in Istanbul. Many of the students hadn't attending school for years.
Conflict
Syrian parents in Turkey worry their kids are losing their culture
Two women discuss Turkish politics during a joint rally in Istanbul between the Islamist and secularist parties shortly after the attempted coup in late July.
Religion
Turkey’s fraught history with headscarves
Turkey Refugee Camp
Conflict
Refugees in Turkey will get EU-funded debit cards
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Culture
In this traditional Turkish candy shop, a daughter takes her turn
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Turkish woman at protest
Conflict
Women are being silenced in Turkey’s crackdown
A man waves a Turkish flag at Taksim Square in Istanbul on July 16 after a coup attempt.
Global Politics
My local grocer knew the Turkish coup would fail. He’s seen successful coups before.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helps to carry a coffin with a victim of a thwarted coup following a funeral service in Istanbul, Turkey, July 17, 2016.
Conflict
Turkey’s crackdown: How far will it go?
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Conflict
Turkey detains 6,000 after coup attempt; president vows to purge ‘virus’
Turkey Quashes Coup; Erdogan Vows ‘Heavy Price’ for Plotters
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Michael Ian Black, Puerto Rican Voters, A Lost Future
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Global Politics
Some Turks in the US are now too afraid to visit their homeland
Turkish MP: Turkey Nearing Civil War
Full Episode
Ankara Attack May Complicate U.S.-Turkish Relations, Fight Against ISIS and Assad
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The End of Average, Reimagining Fashion, Westminster Rejects
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Afghan journalists Sayara Samadi and Mohammad Qais Rahmani lost their baby son trying to cross from Turkey to Greece by boat.
Conflict
Caught in the refugee crisis, these reporters lost their child to the sea
Carving a turducken.
Food
She got her turkey and turducken in South Africa, but then the power went out
Conflict
Death could not stop his drive to help Syria’s refugees
The data page of a United States passport.
Conflict
This American’s passport ended up in the hands of smugglers in Turkey
Yevnige Salibian, 101, is one of the few remaining survivors of the Armenian genocide.
Conflict
101-year-old Armenian genocide survivor tells her story
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Global Politics
‘I am strong — I am not a victim,’ says this Turkish ‘co­-mayor’
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Justice
Thousands march in memory of boy killed by police; Turkey expands police powers
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Justice
‘You set our hearts ablaze:’ Horrific murder draws men in miniskirts onto streets of Turkey
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Conflict
Donations mushroom in honor of slain Muslim students; will help thousands who fled Syria
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Justice
The secret language of Turkey’s LGBT community
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Global Girls’ Education: Breaking Down Barriers
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Turkish musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol visits the Nan and Bill Harris Studios at WGBH in Boston, home to The World.
Music
This musical style was once a dividing line in Turkish culture
Turkish soldiers stand at a position on the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc on September 24, 2014.
Conflict
Turkey prepares to shift course and take military action against ISIS