Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-e-Ravanchi says that ending the “oppressive sanctions” and preserving Iran’s right to uranium enrichment, were insisted by the Iranian delegation in Istanbul nuclear talks.

Kuwaiti artist Sabah Asad on Thursday expressed his great happiness and pride in representing the State of Kuwait at international forums

"This week, by holding talks with Putin and Trump, we will strive to see if we can bring these leaders together in Istanbul," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

Negotiators for the warring sides in Istanbul appeared to make little progress on ceasefire terms or a possible summit between their presidents – with their meeting ending after less than an hour.

Istanbul’s historic buildings, including the Hagia Sophia and Basilica Cistern, are at risk from a major earthquake on the Anatolian fault line.

Ukraine conducted the ninth stage of the prisoner exchange on 23 July, bringing seriously ill and wounded soldiers back home. Source: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Quote: "Today, already the 9th stage of the exchange agreed in Istanbul took place.

The charges for which Istanbul's popular former mayor received a sentence — which stem from comments he made in January — predate his arrest.

Minas Avramidis worked in early 20th-century Kutahya, long after Iznik's kilns cooled but before global capital flattened local craft. He turned humble glazed earthenware into narrative tableaux: a Christian martyr haloed by florals; a moustachioed man raising a pistol in theatrical despair.

With his signature Dadaist irreverence, the artist blends whimsy with menace and playfulness with subversion to unearth uncomfortable truths of our time.

A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official.

Hakan Fidan met with his Bosnian, Serbian, and Montenegrin counterparts, says Turkish Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı