You can wake up in a cave in some areas, pass through Roman ruins at noon, and view the sunset across two continents in Turkey. And here, in this region, these variations are not simply on page in ...

One of those cities is Izmir. Home to around 4.4 million people, Izmir is Turkey's third-largest city. It is located on the western coast of the country and gets treated to temperatures of 34C in ...

Erdogan started his political career as a mayor of Istanbul, a city of 16 million people that is often looked at politically and socially as a microcosm of Turkey. Turkish authorities denied the ...

fierce clashes saw protesters fired upon with tear gas and rubber bullets The head of Turkey's main opposition party has told the BBC that protests will continue "in every city" until either early ...

Beneath the acrid smell of tear gas on the night air in Istanbul, there is a hint of something else - a whiff of panic on the part of Turkey's long-time leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One of his ...