#turkey

#turkey

The handshake between Nikol Pashinyan and Recep Tayyip Erdogan represents a historic moment, as it is the first time an Armenian leader has visited Turkey.

Turkey's tourism sector has invested heavily in comfort and safety since the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to surpass 65 million visitors and generate approximately $59 billion this year.

A new law empowering Turkey's central government to seize historic properties from local authorities is raising fears that heritage sites are becoming the latest front in a wider campaign against opposition-led municipalities. Among the sites at stake are cultural venues run by the Istanbul municipality, whose mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu launched an ambitious conservation drive and expanded cultural programming before he was jailed last year after announcing plans to run for president.

Reza abasi notes that there is a new forum called the "Kurd Hacker Forum" that focuses on databreaches in Iran, Syria, and Turkey. The domain was registered January 28, 2026. The forum, which is on the clear net, looks like it has the same format as the classic BreachForums, with the same types of sections and subsections. The threads in the forum are either in English or Kurdish languages.

We won't remain silent, we won't forget Palestine.

In a post on the platform X, Yerlikaya said the raids had involved the chief public prosecutor's office, the national police's counterterrorism department, intelligence officials, and provincial police departments. "This morning, in 21 provinces, we apprehended 357 suspected ISIS members in simultaneous operations conducted by our police." "Just as we have never given opportunities to those trying to bring this homeland to its knees through terrorism up to this day, we will never give them opportunities in the future either!"

The returns, announced by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, follow multiple criminal investigations into international trafficking networks. According to the DA's office, traffickers exploited periods of instability and weak oversight to plunder sites such as Bubon, routing objects through Switzerland, the UK and the US. Once in New York, prosecutors say, dealers allegedly fabricated provenance records that allowed looted artefacts to be exhibited, published, and sold.

Travel patterns from Germany's main airports during the summer flight schedule (April to October 2025) reveal a number of trends among holidaymakers. While the total number of air travellers has not completely rebounded since the Covid pandemic, data released by the Germany's statistics office (Destatis) highlights shifts across domestic, short-haul and long-haul journeys. In total, 68.5 million passengers departed Germany for destinations abroad during the summer, marking a rise of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year.

We often braise chicken and rabbit legs at Cafe Cecilia, because all the preparation and cooking can be done ahead of time, and it's then just about heating them gently to serve. For Christmas, I often employ much the same process for turkey legs it's a lovely way to eat them. Serve with colcannon, although basmati rice, boiled new potatoes or roast carrots would also go great.

These simple recipes for turkey, side dishes and more call for five ingredients or fewer (not including salt and pepper), so you can get dinner on the table and get to the best part: eating. For more easy five-ingredient recipes, visit our collection. This three-ingredient, one-pan side dish from Sheela Prakash adds a little color and freshness to the table. Plenty of ground black pepper adds heat, while Parmesan lends umami. Recipe: Cacio e Pepe Green Beans

There's a fairy tale about Thanksgiving that gets refuted every fall. Does eating turkey really make you fall asleep? When science writers check in with the experts, they always get the same response: No, no, no, and no. Also no and no. These holiday debunkers tell you what the science says: Turkey meat is not a sedative. They tell you what the studies show: Drumsticks don't produce fatigue.

In the English language, the turkey gets kind of a tough break. Talking turkey requires serious honesty and speaking harsh truths. Going cold turkey is, often, an onerous way of quitting something completely and suddenly. Being a turkey is a rude zinger thrown at movie and theatrical flops, as well as unpleasant, failure-prone people. Yet, in the culinary world, the turkey looms large, particularly during November.

Published in 2024, the book offers a critical examination of how Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party has sought to reposition the country on the world stage. In the 2010s, the party launched an English-language media system to elevate Turkey's image, counter Western criticism of its increasingly authoritarian practices, and promote its own geopolitical and economic interests. Yesil's analysis traces how party-backed outlets frame Turkey as a champion of the oppressed and a counterweight to Western powers,

Viruses can be spread at any time, according to Amarat (Amy) Simonne, a professor of food safety and quality at the University of Florida's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. While she said that the CDC hasn't collected specific data on foods associated with holiday seasons, one study reported an uptick in certain Salmonella cases following the Thanksgiving holiday, which the researchers said was most likely related to foods disproportionately eaten then, particularly turkey.

"It's the last thing, and now the only thing, we can do for Anto and his family," he said. "It came as a big shock for us. We knew he went missing last Wednesday, and it was Sunday, on the fifth day, that his body was recovered. "He would have been 40 in a couple of weeks time, so we were gearing up for a big celebration for him. But we've all been left devastated for his family after what has happened."

It remains unclear whether Arab and other states will be ready to commit troops, in part given the refusal of Palestinian Hamas militants to disarm as called for by the plan, while Israel has voiced concerns about the make-up of the force. While the Trump administration has ruled out sending US soldiers into the Gaza Strip, it has been speaking to Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Azerbaijan to contribute to the multinational force.