Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP) has claimed big election victories in the main cities of Istanbul and Ankara. The results are a significant blow for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had hoped to regain control of the cities less Continue Reading
Forty people are now thought to have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern Turkey, the country’s interior minister says, Suleyman Soylu earlier said 58 people had been rescued from the mine and over a dozen remained trapped. Around 110 people were in the mine at the time of the blast on […]Continue Reading