Ümmiye Koçak started an all-women theatre group, became an award-winning film director and even featured in an ad alongside Cristiano Ronaldo.

One of the first civilizations in Anatolia is located in Turkey's Black Sea province of Corum. Hattusha, capital of the Hittite Empire, dates back to 2nd millennium B.C. and is listed in UNESCO World Heritage sites.The period marks the transition from Middle to late Bronze Age.

The two men behind "My Village Show" put a spin on the Shiggy Challenge, making Drake's popular “In My Feelings" song their own.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Malaysian and Thai counterparts, Saifuddin Abdullah and Don Pramudwinai, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting in Singapore on Thursday.

Various aerial shots from the Ishak Pasha Palace in Turkey's eastern Agri province on August 03, 2018. Building on a hill in the mountainside palace is the last large monumental structure of the Ottoman Empire, the Tulip Period.

Police have confiscated more than 380 kilograms (837 pounds) of heroin in eastern Van province, the regional police directorate announced on Friday.In a statement, Van Security Directorate said an anti-narcotics team seized the heroin during a search of a cargo transfer office in Tusba district.

The Balat and Fener districts of Istanbul were once prominent Greek, Jewish, Armenian and Turkish neighbourhoods. Today they are added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Protesters marched down streets in Chicago Thursday to draw attention to the city's gun violence, briefly shutting down a major highway during rush hour.Their goal was to raise awareness about areas of the city with high crime rates and violence, according to the demonstration's organizers.

NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe General Curtis Scaparotti arrived in Turkey on Thursday, where he visited the Land Forces Command in the Izmir province.

A heartless woman who beat a tiny puppy with a stick in Turkey's Kuşadası was caught on camera. The terrified pups cries can be heard in the heart-wrenching footage.

This poor unsuspecting woman fell victim to a malicious motorcyclist who kicked her violently as he passed by, causing her to fall to the ground and lose consciousness.

A white moggy called Theo, who pawed and sat on his owner all night to stop her falling asleep after she developed a blood clot, was crowned British Cat of the Year on Thursday.

Helicopter-borne rescuers on Friday lifted an Australian climber off a mountain in New Zealand where he had been trapped in freezing temperatures for three days as bad weather and the risk of avalanches hampered rescue efforts.

Six people were injured after a speeding car that had run a red light hit a small bus on a highway in Turkey's İzmir.

These two daughters of a Turkish expat can hardly contain their joy upon running into Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's motorcade in front of the Presidential Complex in Ankara. Upon hearing the girl shouting “Grandpa Recep," Erdoğan orders the driver to stop the car and greets the disbelieving girls, then hands them presents.

The locals in Turkey's Rize have decided they would rather trek through rocks and boulders than allow a concrete road to spoil the natural beauty of their town.

Footage of an incredible lightning storm shot in Australia has gone viral.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm's heavy rocket set for lift-off in 2020 may slip behind schedule, according to people familiar with the project. Blue Origin has added hundreds of engineers over the past three years and continues to ramp up in an expansion that one employee described as "hyperbolic."

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, agreed in a meeting in Singapore on Friday (August 3) to continue to try to resolve issues between the two countries.

British amphibious assault ship lands Marines in Tokyo